Claude Griscelli, a French doctor and immunologist who served as president of Inserm from 1996 to 2001, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 90.
Born in Rabat on March 2, 1936, he attended the Lycée Descartes and the University of Paris Faculty of Medicine. He began research work for Inserm at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, spent time in the United States with the National Institutes of Health, and returned to France in 1968 to become chief clinician of pediatrics at Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital.
In 2007, he founded the Institut des maladies génétiques Imagine at Necker Hospital.
Claude Griscelli, 90, French doctor and immunologist, president of Inserm (1996–2001).