Eric Vivier
{{Short description|Researcher}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Eric Vivier
| image = Eric Vivier.png
| birth_place = Clamart, France
| nationality = French
| fields = Immunology
}}
Eric Vivier is a French professor of immunology at Aix-Marseille and hospital practitioner{{Cite web |title=Laboratoire d'immunologie - Hôpital de la Conception {{!}} AP-HM |url=http://fr.ap-hm.fr/service/laboratoire-immunologie-hopital-conception |access-date=2018-01-11 |website=fr.ap-hm.fr |language=fr}} at Marseille Public University Hospital. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at Innate Pharma,{{Cite news |title=Marseille : le Professeur Éric Vivier retrouve Innate Pharma |url=http://www.laprovence.com/article/economie/4781678/le-professeur-eric-vivier-retrouve-innate-pharma.html}} coordinator of the Marseille Immunopôle immunology cluster,{{Cite news |title=Communauté : Marseille immunopôle |language=fr |work=Marseille Immunopôle |url=http://www.marseille-immunopole.org/communaute/eric-vivier/ |access-date=2018-01-11}} and president of the Paris-Saclay Cancer Cluster.{{Cite web |title=Innovation {{!}} Paris Saclay Cancer Cluster |url=https://www.parissaclaycancercluster.org/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=PSCC |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-29 |title=Le Paris Saclay cancer cluster veut dynamiser la création de start-up françaises en oncologie |url=https://www.lejournaldugrandparis.fr/le-paris-saclay-cancer-cluster-veut-dynamiser-la-creation-de-start-ups-francaises-en-oncologie/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Le journal du Grand Paris - L'actualité du développement de l'Ile-de-France |language=fr-FR}} Vivier is a member of the expert panel of the European Research Council and serves on committees for several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.novadiscovery.com/en/people/profile/eric-vivier-dvm-phd-pu-ph/|title=Eric Vivier}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mimabs.org/en/about-mimabs/steering-{{Not a typo|comi|ttee}}/|title=Steering Committee: Antibodies for Medicine|website=www.mimabs.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}}{{Cite web|url=http://fondation-bms.fr/notre-comite-scientifique|title=Comité Scientifique de la Fondation BMS pour la Recherche en Immuno-Oncologie|website=fondation-bms.fr|language=fr|access-date=2017-03-14}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.bioaster.org/bioaster-en/management/|title=Management - Bioaster|work=Bioaster|access-date=2017-03-14|language=en-GB}}
Early life and education
Eric Vivier was born in Clamart, France.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whoswho.fr/bio/eric-vivier_65249|title=Eric Vivier - Who's Who|website=www.whoswho.fr|language=fr|access-date=2017-03-14}} Vivier is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM). He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort and received his doctoral degree in immunology from Paris XI University.{{Cite web |title=Eric VIVIER, DVM, PhD {{!}} Innate Pharma |url=https://www.innate-pharma.com/company/management/leadership-team/eric-vivier-dvm-phd |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=www.innate-pharma.com}} He completed postdoctoral training as a Fogarty International Center Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School with Paul J. Anderson and Stuart F. Schlossman at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wehi.edu.au/professor-eric-vivier-centre-d%E2%80%99immunologie-de-marseille-luminy|title=Professor Eric Vivier - Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy|date=2015-01-19|work=Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research|access-date=2017-03-14|language=en}}{{Cite journal|date=2015-10-01|title=Cancer Immunology Research: 3 (10)|url=http://cancerimmunolres.aacrjournals.org/content/3/10|journal=Cancer Immunology Research|language=en|volume=3|issue=10|issn=2326-6066}}
Career
Vivier joined Aix-Marseille University as a professor at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in 1993, becoming its director in 2008{{Cite web|url=https://www.apmnews.com/freestory/10/181701/le-pr-eric-vivier-nomme-directeur-du-centre-d-immunologie-marseille-luminy|title=APMnews - Le Pr Eric Vivier nommé directeur du Centre d'immunologie Marseille-Luminy|website=www.apmnews.com|language=fr|access-date=2018-01-11}} until 2017. He co-founded the biotech company Innate-Pharma in 1999{{Cite web|url=http://innate-pharma.com/en/profile/founders|title=Founders {{!}} Innate Pharma|website=innate-pharma.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-16}} and in 2014, he co-founded the Marseille-Immunopole,{{Cite news|url=http://www.marseille-immunopole.org/|title=Accueil : Marseille immunopôle|newspaper=Marseille Immunopôle|access-date=2017-02-16|language=fr}}{{Cite news|url=http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/02/04/immunopole-l-exception-marseillaise_1826554_3234.html?xtmc=eric_vivier&xtcr=17|title=Immunopole : l'exception marseillaise|work=Le Monde.fr|access-date=2017-03-14|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lesechos.fr/12/04/2016/LesEchos/22169-081-ECH_cancer---la-recherche-francaise-seduit-les-industriels-etrangers.htm|title=Cancer : la recherche française séduit les industriels étrangers|date=2016-04-12|website=lesechos.fr|access-date=2017-03-14}} an immunology cluster connecting basic research, therapeutic innovation, and industrial development in the Aix-Marseille region. Vivier was the chief scientific officer of Innate Pharma in January 2018 and in 2022, he served as president of the PSCC (Paris Saclay Cancer Cluster).
Vivier's research has focused on natural killer (NK) cells and innate lymphoid cells (ILCs).{{Cite news|url=http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/11/18/que-suis-je-la-philo-bouscule-la-biologie_3515741_1650684.html?xtmc=eric_vivier&xtcr=19|title=Que suis-je : la philo bouscule la biologie|work=Le Monde.fr|access-date=2017-03-14|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite news|url=http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2012/01/19/une-cellule-tueuse-mutante-a-l-assaut-des-virus_1632007_3244.html?xtmc=eric_vivier&xtcr=5|title=Une cellule tueuse mutante à l'assaut des virus|work=Le Monde.fr|access-date=2017-03-14|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.inserm.fr/layout/set/print/espace-journalistes/les-cellules-innees-lymphoides-systeme-de-secours-contre-les-infections-de-l-intestin|title=Les cellules innées lymphoïdes: système de secours contre les infections de l'intestin|website=www.inserm.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311083407/http://www.inserm.fr/layout/set/print/espace-journalistes/les-cellules-innees-lymphoides-systeme-de-secours-contre-les-infections-de-l-intestin|archive-date=2017-03-11|url-status=dead}} His work has contributed to the understanding of the development, function, and therapeutic potential of these cells. His early research investigated the mechanism of inhibitory MHC class I receptors on NK cells and the concept of ITIM-bearing molecules. His group identified the ITAM-bearing polypeptide, KARAP/DAP12/Tyrobp.{{Cite journal|last1=Tomasello|first1=Elena|last2=Vivier|first2=Eric|date=2005-06-01|title=KARAP/DAP12/TYROBP: three names and a multiplicity of biological functions|journal=European Journal of Immunology|language=en|volume=35|issue=6|pages=1670–1677|doi=10.1002/eji.200425932|pmid=15884055|s2cid=45371614|issn=1521-4141|doi-access=free}} This research led to the discovery and characterization of ILC3 cells in human and mouse intestines.
Awards and honors
- French National League Against Cancer Award (1996, 2004, and 2013){{Cite web|url=http://www.paca.inserm.fr/actualites/prix-duquesne-2013-du-comite-de-paris-de-la-ligue-nationale-contre-le-cancer|title=Prix DUQUESNE 2013 du Comité de Paris de la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer|website=www.paca.inserm.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-03-14}}
- National Award and Tremplins Rhône-Poulenc Award for Biotech start-ups (1999)
- Lucien Tartois Award from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (1999){{Cite web|url=http://www.cnrs.fr/insb/recherche/prix/2007/PrixFRM2007.pdf|title=Les prix de la fondation pour la recherche médicale|access-date=2017-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221746/http://www.cnrs.fr/insb/recherche/prix/2007/PrixFRM2007.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}
- Jacques Oudin Award from the French Society for Immunology (2003){{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi-immunologie.com.fr/pages/?idl=21&page=692|title=Société Française d'Immunologie|website=www.sfi-immunologie.com.fr|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}}
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie/EFIS Award (2004){{Cite web|url=https://www.efis.org/efis-support/awards/efis-il-lecture-award/index.html?nav=true|title=EFIS – European Federation of Immunological Societies: EFIS-IL Lecture Award|website=www.efis.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}}
- Grand Prix Turpin in Oncology (2008){{Cite web|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/archivage_site/activite/prix/laureat_turpin.pdf|title=Prix René Turpin}}
- Grand Prix Charles Oberling in Oncology (2010){{Cite web|url=http://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/436-eric-vivier.html|title=Les membres - Institut Universitaire de France|website=www.iufrance.fr|language=fr|access-date=2017-03-14}}
- Australasian Society for Immunology, Visiting Speaker Programme Award (2015)
- Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (2015, 2016, 2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr/sites/default/files/cvev-oct.2015.pdf|title=Awards}}
Vivier became a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2007 and was elected to the French National Academy of Medicine in 2013.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} In 2016, he was awarded honorary citizen of Cassis, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur{{Cite web|url=http://www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr/node/32544|title=Eric Vivier est promu dans l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur au grade de chevalier {{!}} CIML|website=www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}} and Ambassadeur de la ville de Marseille.{{Cite web|url=http://clubm.marseille.fr/les-ambassadeurs/|title=Les ambassadeurs – Accueil – ClubM|website=clubm.marseille.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-03-14}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/436-eric-vivier.html Eric Viver fact sheet on the Institut Universitaire de France website]
- [http://www.academie-medecine.fr/membres/membre/?mbreid=100168 Eric Vivier fact sheet on the Académie Nationale de Médecine web site]
- [https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=NlmFOgMAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao Listing of scientific publications on Google Scholar]
- [http://www.innate-pharma.com/en/profile/founders Innate Pharma founders]
- [http://www.marseille-immunopole.org/fr/ Marseille Immunopole]
- [https://www.innate-pharma.com/en Innate Pharma]
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