Louis Selim Chedid was born in Cairo (Egypt) in June 1922 and died in Paris in March 2021 at the age of 98. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in Cairo, he started his medical studies in Beirut and completed them in Paris, defending his medical thesis on artificial estrogen in 1947. After being trained in Egypt and the United States, he joined the laboratory of Robert Courrier at the College de France (1946). In 1952, he was recruited by the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France). In 1955, he defended his PhD on hormones and infection and started working at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) in the laboratory of Therapeutic Chemistry under André Lamensans. He joined the Institut Pasteur in 1961 and was promoted to Professor in 1972. In 1973, he became the head of the Experimental Immunotherapy laboratory. In 1986, he moved to the H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center and Research Institute at the Universiy of South Florida, Tampa where he founded a startup working on vaccine adjuvants (VacSyn). Louis Chedid was the co-author of 26 patents.

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讣告 Louis Selim Chedid, MD PhD IEIIS 终身荣誉会员

路易斯·塞利姆·切迪德 1922 年 6 月出生于开罗（埃及），2021 年 3 月在巴黎去世，享年 98 岁。在开罗获得学士学位后，他在贝鲁特开始了他的医学学习，并在巴黎完成了学业，为自己的医学辩护1947年发表关于人工雌激素的论文。在埃及和美国接受培训后，他加入了法兰西学院罗伯特·库里尔的实验室（1946年）。1952年，他被法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）招募。1955 年，他获得了荷尔蒙和感染博士学位，并开始在巴斯德研究所（巴黎）的治疗化学实验室工作，由 André Lamensans 领导。1961年加入巴斯德研究所，1972年晋升教授，1973年任实验免疫治疗实验室主任。1986 年，他搬到坦帕南佛罗里达大学的 H. Lee Moffit 癌症中心和研究所，在那里他创立了一家从事疫苗佐剂 (VacSyn) 的创业公司。Louis Chedid 是 26 项专利的合著者。