Year of birth: 1907

Year of death: 2006

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BIOGRAPHY

Jean Bernard was a French haematologist who was among the foremost pioneers of European leukaemia therapy at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. Building upon the earliest antimetabolite remissions reported by Farber in the United States, Bernard and his colleagues developed combination chemotherapy programmes for acute leukaemia through the 1950s and 1960s, and later made seminal contributions to the understanding and treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia. He was instrumental in establishing French cooperative leukaemia groups and trained a generation of European haematologists. Bernard combined clinical brilliance with a deep humanist philosophy and was elected to the Académie française in 1975, a rare honor for a physician.