Jean-Marie Lang

Lang studied under Robert Waitz [fr] at Louis Pasteur University.^[2] He wrote his thesis on "mixed cultures of lymphocytes: search for a specific inhibition of the immunological response to the antigenic specificities of the donor in kidney transplant patients" in 1971.^[3] In 1983, he became a specialist in the fight against HIV^[4] and was regional coordinator for the fight against the disease with Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg [fr] from 1987 to 2011.^[5][6][7] Alongside Professor Willy Rozenbaum, head of the Hôpital Saint-Louis and Sophie Delaunay, head of the Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, he signed a cooperation agreement with the Laotian Minister of Health, Pomnek Dalaloy, and the French Ambassador to Laos.^[8] He retired in 2011.

Jean-Marie Lang died in Oberhausbergen on 16 July 2021 at the age of 78.^[9]