Eric Vivier is a Professor of Immunology at the Medical Faculty of Marseille and Hospital Practitioner at the Timone Hospital and the Assistance-Publique Hospitals of Marseille.

He is also Director of the Centre of Immunology of Marseille-Luminy since 2006 where his team studies the cell biology of “Natural Killer” cells.

In 1993 after a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School he joined the CIML where he founded the Laboratory “Natural killer Cells and Innate Immunity” in 1996.

This research helped to elucidate the role of this group of cells and more broadly to decipher the molecular mechanisms controlling their activation.

Eric Vivier opened the way for the development of new therapeutic strategies against cancer and inflammatory diseases.