Pierre Tiollais
Pierre Jean René Noël Tiollais (8 December 1934 – 5 August 2024) was a French medical doctor and biologist.
Life and career
[edit]Tiollais was born in Rennes on 8 December 1934. He was 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.[citation needed]
In 1985, with his collaborators at the Institut Pasteur, he created a vaccine obtained by genetic engineering (recombinant vaccine) against hepatitis B, prepared on Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO) .[3] His team were the first to create the hepatitis B vaccine using CHO cells. In 1990, he received the research prize from the Allianz-Institut de France Foundation.[4]
Tiollais died on 5 August 2024, at the age of 89.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Académie des sciences".
- ^ "Académie nationale de Médecine".
- ^ L'Histoire des vaccinations, Hervé Bazin
- ^ Allianz s’engage depuis 30 ans dans la recherche médicale
- ^ "Remembering Pierre Tiollais, professor at the Pasteur Institut, Head of the Molecular Biology of Viral Infections and Cancer Unit". France in the United States. 11 September 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
