Category:Axel Kahn

**Axel Kahn**
	French geneticist Axel Kahn en 2015.
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Name in native language	Axel Kahn;
Date of birth	5 September 1944; Le Petit-Pressigny (Indre-et-Loire, France); Axel Maurice René Kahn
Date of death	5 July 2021; 15th arrondissement of Paris
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	cancer;
Place of burial	Mussy-sur-Seine;
Country of citizenship	France;
Educated at	Lycée Buffon (Concours général, baccalauréat); Paris Diderot University (doctorate in France, –1974);
Doctoral advisor	Pierre Boivin;
Doctoral student	Jean-Paul Concordet; Jean-Philippe Hugnot; Muriel Thomas; Benoit Viollet; Lucile Miquerol; Alexandra Henrion Caude;
Occupation	biologist; geneticist; politician; university teacher; science communicator; physician; researcher;
Employer	French National Institute of Health and Medical Research; Paris Descartes University; National League Against Cancer;
Member of	French Academy of Sciences (1990–); National Ethics Advisory Committee (1992–2004);
Member of political party	French Communist Party (–1977); Socialist Party (1981–1983);
Position held	président d'université (Paris Descartes University, 2007–2011); president (National League Against Cancer, 2019–2021); president (Biomolecular Engineering Commission, 1987–1997); vice president (Q16541261, 1990–1995); editor-in-chief (médecine/sciences, 1986–1998); president (Q97293131, 2009–2016); president (Inrae-Cirad-Ifremer-Ird joint ethics advisory committee, 2016–2021);
Field of work	human genetics;
Native language	French;
Father	Jean Kahn-Dessertenne;
Sibling	Jean-François Kahn; Olivier Kahn;
Spouse	Pascale Briand (1995–1995);
Award received	Officer of the Legion of Honour; Commander of the National Order of Merit; Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; Grande médaille de la francophonie (1990); Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit; Grand prix de la francophonie (1990); honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke; honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain; Concours général (1961); honorary doctorate at the Laval University (2003); Honorary doctor of the University of Liège; honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal; CNRS silver medal (1990);
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Authority file
	Q325495; ISNI: 0000000122795957; VIAF ID: 47922793; GND ID: 132431556; Library of Congress authority ID: n98090296; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12103568b; IdRef ID: 029399882; NDL Authority ID: 01235406; NL CR AUT ID: jx20071017022; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 371116155; NUKAT ID: n99014618; National Library of Korea ID: KAC201858266; J9U ID: 987007515256505171; FranceArchives agent ID: 18642809; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA17385384; MusicBrainz artist ID: cbbb54e3-9f2d-406a-873c-dedbd662d682
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