Justin
Teissié
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Justin Teissié, director of exceptional class at the CNRS, biophysicist, ESPCI engineer in 1970, PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry from the University of Paris, PhD in Biophysics from the University of Toulouse in 1979, obtained in 1973 a position as research associate at the CNRS in Toulouse in the team of Prof. A. Baudras at the Centre de Recherche en Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaire.
After his post-doctorate in the United States at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine in the laboratory of Prof. T.Y. Tsong, he created his team and was the pioneer of electroporation in France.
Author of more than 300 articles*, he has dedicated his life to the study of biological membranes and the basic processes of electroporation and has played a major role in the development of its applications in the medical field for electrochemotherapy and in industry for sterilization.
President of the Scientific Council of the University of Toulouse III Doctoral School of Life Sciences from 1993 to 2011, head of the Biomembranes, then Structural Biology and Biophysics Department at IPBS-Toulouse from 2006 to 2010, winner of the prize for the medical applications of electricity awarded by the Institut Electricité Santé in 1995, CNRS honorary medalist in 2013 and awarded by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017, J. Teissié lived by and for Science.
His passing creates an immense void in our community. His integrity and scientific rigor as well as his great generosity and availability were exemplary and unfailing.
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