The Board of Directors of the IHU Mediterranean Infection validated Tuesday the process of replacing its director and placed him under the chairmanship of the former boss of Renault.
It was a boards without a blow of brilliance, Tuesday, November 23, at the Mediterranean Hospital Institute (IHU) Mediterranean Infection in Marseille, led by Professor Didier Raoult. The meeting, which had been preceded by many polemics aimed at the Marseille microbiologist, took place in a more so-so-called atmosphere that the researcher’s statements, accusing in particular the new Directorate General of the University Hospitals of Marseille, one of his Main partners, to “want to clean” within its structure.
Tuesday morning, the members of the board of directors, including the President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, Renaud Muselier (Republicans), have unanimously validated the launch of a procedure of Replacement of Professor Raoult through an international call for tenders. The latter should lead to candidate hearings in early June 2022 for a post office between September 30 and December 31 of the same year.
The conditions of application have been written by the IHU Scientific and Strategic Council, which corresponds to one of the wishes of the current Director. But the whole process will be placed, as explained by the Institute in a Lapidary Communiqué, under the High Authority of an unexpected personality, the former senior official Louis Schweitzer.
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The ex-pattern of Renault, who has a time chaired by the Common Ethics Committee bringing together the Institute for Development Research, a founding member of the IHU, the National Institute for Research for Agriculture, Food and the environment and the French Sea Research Institute, confirmed the world that it agreed to lead the auditions and work of the jury. Member of the Aix-Marseille Strategic Council, Mr. Schweitzer knows the structure of the Marseillais IHU, which he followed the creation – in the same way as that of the other French-speaking hospital institutes – while he was commissioner General for the government’s investment of 2014 to 2017.
His presence at the head of the Selection Board is likely to satisfy the requests of the Director General of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), François Crémieux, and the President of Aix-Marseille University Eric Berton, who personally solicited him. These two main partners of the IHU wish to see the choice of Mr. Raoult’s successor to be carried out outside the Seraglio of the Institute. “Louis Schweitzer is a totally outdoor personality to the Marseille networks, which usually the major boards of directors and whose reputation for probity is no longer to do”, note, satisfies, the President of the Medical Commission of the AP-HM, Professor Jean-Luc Jouve.
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