Alain FISCHER

Pr Alain Fischer studied medicine, specializing in pediatrics and immunology at the Université de Paris. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, he began independent research at an INSERM unit at Necker Hospital in Paris. From 2009 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute for Genetic Diseases (Imagine) at Necker University Hospital. Dr. Fischer also served as a professor of pediatric immunology at the Université Paris Descartes. From 1996 to 2012, he served as the director of the pediatric immunology department at the Necker Hospital. Dr. Fischer was Professor at the College de France (chaire Claude Bernard from 2014 to 2020). Dr. Fischer’s main research interests are gene therapy, primary immunodeficiency diseases, and lymphoid system development. Dr. Fischer received the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2001 and the Japan Prize 2015. He is a member of the French and US National Academies of Science and Medicine. He served as president of the French Academy of Sciences in the years 2023 and 2024.