Pierre Corvol (born 18 August 1941) is a French doctor and biology researcher.
He served as resident at academic hospitals of Paris (1964), and spent post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, in 1969.
In 1983, he took over the management of Inserm's U36 (Vascular Pathology and Renal Endocrinology) and was elected as the chairman of the experimental medicine department at the Collège de France in 1989, a position he held until 2012.
Corvol is a researcher in the field of endocrine regulation of blood pressure and hypertension.
[6] He has shown the importance of genetic markers in the renin system for predisposition to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and renal complications in diabetics.