Jean-Marie Lang

Jean-Marie Lang was a French doctor and professor of immuno-oncology. He practiced medicine at the in Strasbourg and he was a professor at the University of Strasbourg.

Biography

Lang studied under at Louis Pasteur University. He wrote his thesis on "mixed cultures of lymphocytes: search for a specific inhibition of the immunological response to the antigenic specificities of the donor in kidney transplant patients" in 1971. In 1983, he became a specialist in the fight against HIV and was regional coordinator for the fight against the disease with from 1987 to 2011. Alongside Professor Willy Rozenbaum, head of the Hôpital Saint-Louis and Sophie Delaunay, head of the Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, he signed a cooperation agreement with the Laotian Minister of Health, Pomnek Dalaloy, and the French Ambassador to Laos. He retired in 2011.
Jean-Marie Lang died in Oberhausbergen on 16 July 2021 at the age of 78.