Jean-Marie Lang
Lang in 2015
Born13 May 1943
Offemont, France
Died16 July 2021(2021-07-16) (aged 78)
Oberhausbergen, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Professor
Doctor

Jean-Marie Lang (13 May 1943 – 16 July 2021) was a French doctor and professor of immuno-oncology.[1] He practiced medicine at the Nouvel Hôpital civil in Strasbourg and he was a professor at the University of Strasbourg.

Biography

Lang studied under Robert Waitz at Louis Pasteur University.[2] He wrote his thesis on "mixed cultures of lymphocytes: search for a specific inhibition of the immunological response to the antigenic specificities of the donor in kidney transplant patients" in 1971.[3] In 1983, he became a specialist in the fight against HIV[4] and was regional coordinator for the fight against the disease with Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg from 1987 to 2011.[5][6][7] Alongside Professor Willy Rozenbaum, head of the Hôpital Saint-Louis and Sophie Delaunay, head of the Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, he signed a cooperation agreement with the Laotian Minister of Health, Pomnek Dalaloy, and the French Ambassador to Laos.[8] He retired in 2011.

Jean-Marie Lang died in Oberhausbergen on 16 July 2021 at the age of 78.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Professeur Jean-Marie LANG". Libra Memoria (in French).
  2. ↑ Cazenave, Jean-Pierre; Hauptmann, Georges (February 2012). "Hommage à Robert Waitz (1900-1978)". Bulletin de l’Académie nationale de médecine (in French).
  3. ↑ Lang, Jean-Marie; Waitz, Robert (1971). Cultures mixtes de lymphocytes : recherche d'une inhibition spécifique de la réponse immunologique aux spécificités antigéniques du donneur chez des patients transplantés du rein. SUDOC (Thesis) (in French).
  4. ↑ "JEAN-MARIE LANG, spécialiste de l'immuno-déficience humaine". Le Monde (in French). 21 April 1999. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Vie publique". L'Express (in French). 27 April 2000.
  6. ↑ Brassart-Georg, Marie (13 October 2007). "Jean-Marie Lang : " Un révélateur de tous les dysfonctionnements individuels et collectifs "". Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. ↑ Fontenay, Franck (18 March 2000). "La précarité ne sape pas le traitement anti-VIH. Une enquête inédite révèle que, malgré des situations sociales difficiles, les patients prennent correctement leurs médicaments. Une ombre au tableau: les femmes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Lutte contre le Sida : Signature d'un accord de coopération entre la France et le Laos". La France au Laos (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Daune, Geneviève (21 July 2021). "Le décès de Jean-Marie Lang, pionnier alsacien de la lutte contre le sida". Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French). Retrieved 26 July 2021.


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