Jean-Pierre Soulier

Jean -Pierre Soulier ( born September 14, 1915 in Etretat, † January 18, 2003 in Paris) was a French hematologist.

Life

Jean -Pierre Soulier was born in 1915 in a small town in Normandy. He was the grandson of a surgeon. After attending primary and secondary school in Rouen, he moved at the age of 15 years to high school " Pasteur " in the Paris district of Neuilly, where he earned a university entrance qualification. He then studied medicine at the University of Paris, from which he graduated in 1937. Further training led him in 1945 for a year as a research fellow in the United States at the University of Harvard. After his return he was made ​​head of the laboratory of a regional blood transfusion service in Paris. Nine years later he was appointed director of the National Institute for Transfusion Service. In 1961 he became professor of hematology at the University of Paris. From 1978 to 1980 he was president of the International Society of Blood Transfusion.

Work

The main interests of his research have been both in blood transfusion and blood coagulation. He introduced some techniques for studying various problems in this area. In 1947 he published the discovery of the anticoagulant substance Phenylindanedione and the first preparation of a therapeutic blood plasma fraction to the successful treatment of factor IX and prothrombin complex deficiency. According to him, the Bernard- Soulier syndrome, a congenital disorder of the functions of platelets ( thrombocytes), with increased bleeding tendency, was named.