Laurent Degos

The Degos family is from Mugron (Landes) with several generations of country medical doctors: Jean Baptiste (1797-1859), Alfred (1840-1925) and Louis (1873-1928) his grandfather.

Laurent Degos, a close collaborator of Jean Dausset (Nobel Prize winner 1980) since 1969, succeeded him in 1980 as head of the immunogenetics laboratory (Inserm).

His wisdom and the absence of conflict of interest due to his position in national agencies gave him the opportunity to be called upon in various institutions as an advisor.

He has also demonstrated his ability to obtain interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research for policy within the framework of the Bioalliance of European Medical Societies and has successfully joined European Member States by co-founding Eunet HTA for the study of comparative efficacy of health products and leading Eunet PAS for patient safety research.

He has demonstrated authority and independence as guest scientific advisor for the preparation of the USA Affordable Care Act (ACA) on comparative efficacy research, representing France alongside 3 other members from the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia, and as guest member of the nomination committee in China for the CAS institute for translational medicine (Canton).