Simone Mayer

Simone Mayer was a French hematologist and author.

Early life

Simone Mayer was born in Metz, Moselle.
Simone and her father were saved from deportation during the Second World War. Father Antoine Girardin, a priest, hid her and her father from the authorities in his presbytery. They were not allowed to leave their room for any reason, nor make noise that could give them away.

Career

After the war, Mayer practiced medicine at "Medical Clinic A" at the Strasbourg Hospital, which was devoted to internal medicine. A photo from 1946 shows she was part of a small female complement at Clinic A.
Her doctoral thesis was presented to the Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg in 1951, describing oxysteroids.
She served as chair of the Hematology Department at the Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, where she was a student of Robert Waitz. Along with Nobel Prize winner Jean Dausset, she helped establish a histocompatibility laboratory at the CRTS Centre Régional de Transfusion Sanguine, which led to the development of bone marrow and organ transplantation at University of Strasbourg Hospitals. She was named director of the CRTS Strasbourg in 1976. From 1978 to 1986, Mayer relocated the Plasma Fractionation Center to Lingolsheim.