Jean-Pierre Cazenave

Honorary Professor of Hematology and Transfusion at the University of Strasbourg, Jean-Pierre Cazenave is also president of the Strasbourg medical research association ARMESA, president of the strategic committee of Health & Biotech France, and permanent member of the French National Academy of Medicine. After obtaining his medical degree in 1970 from the University of Strasbourg, he moved to Canada to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where he was appointed assistant professor of Pathology and worked towards a PhD on platelet physiology and pharmacology. Back in Strasbourg in 1978, he went on to work at the Blood Transfusion Center to ultimately create an INSERM research unit in 1986 dedicated to Biology and Pharmacology of Hemostasis and Thrombosis. From 1987 to 2013, he held the position of director at the Blood Transfusion Center EFS-Alsace in Strasbourg. Former president (1992-1995) and vice-president (2002-2010) of the Société Française de Transfusion Sanguine, he is currently member of several international medical societies and author of 620 scientific publications.