Yves Agid (born 13 November 1940 in Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes) is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, cell biologist, neurochemist, academician, university professor, hospital doctor, researcher in biology and scientist specializing in neurosciences.

[3] Yves Agid was educated at the Lycée Jean-Baptiste Corot in Savigny-sur-Orge and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University.

On April 12, 2010, at the World Day for Parkinson's disease, Yves Agid and Bruno Favier as the founders of the Association France Parkinson, presented a white paper entitled Recommendations Objective: leave the "most forgotten diseases of the brain" shadow to the Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot.

[4][10] His research has been devoted to studying the mechanisms of cell death, and their pathophysiological and clinical consequences, with the essential model of Parkinson disease.

[11] Among his key contributions:[4] Yves Agid has published over 600 scientific articles at international level.