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 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]

References
  1. "Académie des sciences".
  2. "Académie nationale de Médecine".
  3. L'Histoire des vaccinations, Hervé Bazin
  4. Allianz s’engage depuis 30 ans dans la recherche médicale
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