Marc Lipinski

A Research Director at CNRS and author of around one hundred scientific publications mainly in the fields of Immunology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Dr. Marc Lipinski has headed for 12 years the Director of a joint Tumor Biology laboratory between CNRS and Université Paris Sud on the campus of Institut Gustave Roussy, one of the main cancer research centers in Europe.

As an elected Ecologist in the Regional Council of Île-de-France, he was the Vice-President in charge of Higher Education, Research and Innovation between 2004 and 2010. He created the Partnerships between Institutions and Citizens for Research and Innovation (Picri), an instrument which every year since 2005 has granted financial support to around 10 research projects coelaboated and developed in common between academic researchers and members of civil society organizations.

In 2012, he has published « Les sciences, un enjeu citoyen  - Une vision écologiste de la recherche et de l’innovation  » to relate how an alliance of inventivity and will can have a profound and sustainable impact on public policies, among which matters of scientific litteracy. Granted a mission on Citizens and Science by the President of CNRS, he has put forward proposals to promote and develop participative and cooperative research in France.
Dr. Marc Lipinski received an MD in 1977 and a PhD in Biochemistry in 1979, both from Université Paris Diderot.