Pierre Tiollais

Pierre Jean René Noël Tiollais (born on December 8, 1934 in Rennes) is a French medical doctor and biologist.

He is a member of the French Academy of sciences[1] of the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Medicine.[2]

In 1979, in collaboration with Francis Galibert, he carried out the complete sequencing of the hepatitis B virus genome, which made it possible to manufacture the first detection tests and screening for this disease.

In 1985, with his collaborators at the Institut Pasteur, he created the first vaccine obtained by genetic engineering (recombinant vaccine) against hepatitis B, prepared on Chinese hamster ovary cells.[3] In 1990, he received the research prize from the Allianz-Institut de France Foundation.[4]

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