Michel Barme (1926-2013)

French physician and biologist born on August 25th, 1926, in Lambezellec (Finistère , France).
1950-1951 Hospital internship at the Villeneuve - St - Georges Hospital.
1951-1955 Continued hospital internship at the Institut Pasteur Hospital in Paris, then became an assistant.
31/03/1955 Thesis defense for a Doctorate of Medicine : Technique for the determ ination of tetracycline antibiotics in humours.
1955-1957 Travelled to Vietnam to work as the head of a laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Hanoi.
1957-1958 Appointed Acting Director of the Institut Pasteur in NhaTrang.
1959-1961 Appointed Head of laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Saigon. (currently Ho Chi Minh City) ; Conducted research on the poisonous marine snakes in Indochina (Hydrophiidae) and developped of a treatment against their bites.
1961 Participated in the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, in Honolulu (Hawaii).
1962-1963 Left Vietnam to become head of laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
1963-1970 Appointed Head of laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar (Senegal).
12/01/1963 Married Brigitte Faisant de Champchesnel, with whom he had two sons, Antoine and Laurent.
1965 Participated in the International Symposium on Rabies in Talloires (France).
1965-1977 Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit in Senegal ; then to the rank of Knight of the National Order of Merit in France.
1967 Scientific training at the Lister Institute (London, England).
1968 Attended Fortran courses (programming language mainly used for scientific c omputing) at the Paris Institute of Statistics.
1970-1974 Returned to the Institut Pasteur in Paris and worked in the viral vacc ine unit ; developed the production process of a new influenza vaccine and a fre eze-dried antigen of the mumps virus ; participated in numerous clinical trials and tests on poliomyelitis vaccine batches.
1971-1979 Assumed numerous responsibilities, in particular as a WHO expert on b iological standardization ; worked on secondment to the CDC (Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA) ; worked as an expert analyst for the Min istry of Health and for the National Commission on Pharmacology.
1972-1994 Promoted to Head of the viral vaccines unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
1974 Promoted to Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
1979-1981 Became Scientific Adviser to the Institut Pasteur's management.
1982-1994 Promoted to Deputy General Manager at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
1994 Retired.
09/03/2013 Died ; funerals celebrated in Paris.

Contributors : F. Bourillet, J. Cheymol, Jacques Detrait, M. Huard, P. Kirsche, René Martin, P. Mattern, M. Rey, M. Roch-Arveiller, Nguyen Xuan Mai, I. Seck, Bernard Sureau, M. Venon, Vu-Tu-Dung.

Biographical reference tools :
-Bulletin de la Société d'Herpétologie Française, nø 148, p. 515-522, 2013.

CeRIS' Archives Division (Institut Pasteur)