
Scientific Committee
The SteerinG Committee
The director of the foundation is helped by a scientific steering committee, presided over by the director. He is in charge of proposing and implementing the scientific orientations of the foundation. The steering committee defines priorities and corresponding budgets and select projects and follows-up its decisions’ applications, while respecting the development strategy defined by the board of directors.
The steering committee is made of the following members:
- Jean-Paul SOULILLOU | Nantes (Director – President of the Steering Committee)
- Ignacio ANEGON | Nantes
- Gilles BLANCHO | Nantes
- Xavier MARTIN | Lyon
- Emmanuel MORELON | Lyon (Scientific Director)
- Lionel BADET | Lyon
- Christophe LEGENDRE | Paris (Scientific Director)
- Lucienne CHATENOUD | Paris
- Eric THERVET | Paris

The International Scientific Advisory Board
The scientific advisory board is asked for advice regarding great scientific orientations and regarding the program of actions of the foundation :
The scientific advisory board is made of the following members:
- Pr Michel GOLDMAN
Head of the Department of Immunology-Hematology-Transfusion - Director of the new Institute of Medical Immunology “Université Libre” of Brussels, Gosselies (Belgium)
- Pr Jacques PIRENNE
Head abdominal transplant Surgery and transplant coordination, UZ Leuven (Belgium)
- Pr David SACHS
Director, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston (USA)
- Pr David SUTHERLAND
Director of the Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation - Head of the Transplant Division in the Department of Surgery - Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota Minneapolis (USA)
- Pr Yves VANRENTERGHEM
Professor of Medicine, Chairman Department of Nephrology - Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
- Pr Kathryn WOOD
Nuffield Department of Surgery, Professor of Immunology Oxford University (United Kingdom)