Prof Alain Fischer joins Cellectis’s scientific advisory board

Company: Cellectis’s

Appointee: Alain Fischer

Location

Cellectis SA of France has appointed Professor Alain Fischer to its scientific advisory board, while Alain Godard has joined the company’s board of directors.

Prof Fischer is a specialist in immunology and gene therapy. He has won awards both in France and elsewhere, including the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in Geneva in 2001 and the European Community’s Descartes Prize in 2005.

Mr Godard is an agricultural engineer and has held a series of senior management positions in the fields of agricultural biotech and human and animal healthcare.

Cellectis is a genome engineering and genome surgery company.

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Cellectis press release, 28 December 2007

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