Axel Kahn

Axel Kahn ( born September 5, 1944 in Le Petit- Pressigny ) is a French physician and geneticist, brother of the journalist Jean -François Kahn and the chemist Olivier Kahn. He turned himself extensively to the debate about ethics.

The former internal of the Hôpitaux de Paris came as a researcher in biochemistry at the research institute Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (short: INSERM ) a. From 1988 to 1997 he was President of the Commission du genie biomoléculaire, further 1992-2004 Member of the Comité consultatif national d' éthique ( CCNE ) and from 1997-1999 Deputy scientific director of the department Sciences de la vie the group Rhône -Poulenc. European Commissioner for Research of the European Commission Busquin appointed him Chairman of the Expert Group Sciences de la Vie (2000-2002), which acts in the field of life sciences and technologies. He is currently Head of Research Department of Genetics and molecular physiology and pathology of the Institut Cochin in Paris and the only candidate for the presidency of the University of Paris V Descartes.

Axel Kahn was the founder and chief editor of the Revue Médecine / Sciences (1986-1998) and is author of many philosophical and ethical writings.

Awards

  • Price of the Académie de médecine
  • Grande de la francophonie médaille the Académie française
  • Silver Medal of the CNRS national research institute
  • Prix ​​du français rayonnement
  • Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite
  • Ordre du Mérite agricole officer of the
  • Officer of the Legion of Honor
  • Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  • Honorary doctor of several universities: Université catholique de Louvain and University of Liege in Belgium
  • University of Montréal, Laval University, and University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada,

Work

  • Axel Kahn: Société et révolution biologique: pour une éthique de la responsabilité, INRA éditions, Paris 1996
  • Axel Kahn: La Médecine du siècle XXIe: the gene et des hommes, Éditions Bayard Press, Paris 1996
  • Axel Kahn, Fabrice Papillon: Copies conformes, le clonage s question, NiL Editions, Paris, février 1998.
  • Axel Kahn: Et l' Homme dans tout ça? - Plea pour un humanisme modern. NiL Editions, Paris, mars 2000.
  • Albert Jacquard, Axel Kahn: L' avenir n'est pas écrit, Editions Bayard, Paris 2001 ( september )
  • Axel Kahn: Raisonnable et humain, Nile Editions, Paris 2004 (February)
  • Axel Kahn, Dominique Lecourt: Bioéthique et liberté, Collection Quadrige / Essais PUF, Paris 2004 (February)
  • André Comte- Sponville, Marie de Hennezel, Axel Kahn: Doit -on légaliser l' euthanasia, Editions de l' Atelier, Paris 2004?
  • Axel Kahn, Fabrice Papillon: Le Secret de la salamandre - La médecine d' en quête immortalité Éditions Nile, Paris 2005 (March)
  • Biotechnologies, Progres - Histoire, développement, débats actuels. Les leçons inaugurales du Groupe ESA - December 2005.
  • Axel Kahn, Jean -François Kahn: Comme deux frères Éditions Stock, Paris 2006 (January)
  • Axel Kahn: L' Homme, ce roseau pensant; essai sur les racines de la nature humaine, Éditions Nile, Paris 2007 (January)
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