[1] He has published several works and hosts the radio show Sur les épaules de Darwin.

[2] 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.

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

[13][5] 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".

[14] Jean Claude Ameisen is mainly known for his work on the processes of programmed cell death or apoptosis in physiopathology and evolution.