She takes over from Yolande Obadia, who chaired the institute since its creation in 2011.
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Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave was appointed Friday, September 3 as president of the Mediterranean Infection University Hospital Institute (IHU) in Marseille, replacing Yolande Obadia, a close friend of Professor Raoult, we learned from the Institute. .
State Councilor and former director of the Biomedicine Agency, Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave, 62-year-old enarque, was elected by the eighteen voting members of the IHU board of directors, said the structure. This change comes after the replacement of the controversial Didier Raoult, by Professor Pierre-Edouard Fournier, specialist in infectious diseases at the head of the institute. A decision that is not unanimous either.
Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave will replace Doctor Obadia as President of the IHU. President of the IHU since its creation in 2011 in the form of a foundation, she announced in mid-July, when Professor Fournier was appointed, her intention to leave this position. She then paid tribute to the “pugnacity” of Didier Raoult in the creation of this infectious disease research institute. Recognized, the structure is however in a scientific and media storm for several months.
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