Jean-Claude Ameisen

In 2016, he became the sponsor of the ECN 2020 promotion at Nancy's Faculty of Medicine.

He is a doctor, an immunologist and a French researcher in biology. He is the Director of the Center for Life Studies of the Paris Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University and President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012–2016).

Jean Claude Ameisen was president of the INSERM ethics committee from 2003 to 2012, and in 2005 became a member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE). On October 3, 2012, on the proposal of the President of the Republic François Hollande, the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and that of the Senate approved his appointment to the presidency of the CCNE to replace Alain Grimfeld having completed his term. He took office on November 9, 2012, he became honorary president at the time of the appointment of Jean-François Delfraissy on December 14, 2016.

In July 2011, he joined Martine Aubry's campaign team for the 2012 presidential election, in charge, with Charlotte Brun, of the subject "Elderly people, Dependency, and Disability".

Author of many essays on science, he is, since September 2010, the designer and the host of the show Sur les épaules de Darwin de France Inter.

He was the President of the French Conference for Biodiversity held in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in May 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, then the National Strategy for Biodiversity Review Committee in 2011.

He was president of the Ethics and Scientific Committee of the International Foundation for Applied Research on Disability (FIRAH) from 2009 to 2013.

He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Alsacienne, then studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Cochin and Lille University Hospital where he did his internship. He specializes in pneumology and focuses on immunology research within INSERM. He is a postdoctoral fellow then associate researcher in immunology at Yale University School of Medicine (1986–1987). He is a lecturer and hospital practitioner in immunology at Lille University Hospital (1989–1996). In 1994, he was appointed director of the Inserm U415 unit at the Institut Pasteur in Lille. In 1996, he was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Allergy and Immunology at La Jolla (LIAI) in California and, in 1998, Professor of Immunology at Bichat Hospital (Paris-Diderot University). In September 2011, he was appointed director of the Center for Life Studies at the Paris Institute of Humanities.

Jean Claude Ameisen (born December 22, 1951) is a French doctor, immunologist and researcher in biology. He is Director of the Center for Life Studies of the Paris Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University and President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012–2016).

His father, Emanuel Ameisen, with Polish and Jewish origins, emigrated to Paris in the 1930s, where he became an engineer after completing studies in Grenoble. His mother Janine Ameisen was a painter and survivor of Auschwitz. She then lived in the United States where Jean Claude Ameisen was born.