Hematologist, born November 1, 1962 in Paris.
She is the eldest of three children of Élie Meir Buzyn, born January 7, 1929 in Lodz (Poland), from a practicing Jewish family: his father is an industrialist in textiles and his mother is committed to the Zionist women movement ( Wizo). This now retired orthopedic surgeon, an active member of the Sigmund Freud Lodge at B’nï B’rith, was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor in April 2014 as a former deportee. Wikipedia says he has long "testified to his wish to forget, which [led] him to have his deportee number removed. It was after a 50-year silence that he decided to testify to his experience as a ghetto and camp survivor. " Settled in mandatory Palestine in 1945, he then went to France where his uncle, Léon Perel, was a surgeon at Rothschild hospital for the duration of the war.
Born in 1935, her mother Etty Wrobel, from a Polish Jewish family, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, trained in mother-baby psychotherapy by Françoise Dolto [a pro-pedophilia psychologist], has written several books on the subject (that are regularly presented at the B'naï B'rith Writers' Salons).
Agnes Buzyn is divorced from lawyer Pierre-François Veil (3 children, Stéphanie, Raphaël and Luca), youngest son of Antoine Veil and former UDF Minister and former President of the European Parliament Simone Veil (née Jacob).[Veil is now buried in Pantheon along with the 50 or so most "prominent" French personalities like Voltaire, Rousseau or Victor Hugo] Celebrated on June 27, 1985, this marriage is perceived in the medical community as the real accelerator of his career (cf. Liberation, December 29, 2011).
On January 17, 1997, she married in second marriage Yves Lévy (3 children, Romain, Sophie and Alexandre), born on August 1, 1957 in Casablanca (Morocco), arrived in France in 1973 (naturalized in 1975), intern of the hospitals of Paris (1981-1986), lecturer (1992), then professor and head of clinical immunology service at the Henri Mondor University Hospital Center (Créteil). Researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) between 1986 and 2012, he was scientific director of the vaccine program of the National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS) between 2006 and 2012 , special health advisor in the cabinet of the Socialist Minister of Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso between May 2012 and April 2014. President of INSERM [French NIH] since then, he signed, last April, the call for directors of French research to vote against Marine Le Pen.
Passed by the Alsatian school and former intern of hospitals in Paris, Agnès Buzyn was responsible for the intensive care unit for adult hematology and bone marrow transplant at Necker Hospital (1992-2011). Professor of hematology at Pierre and Marie Curie University since 2004, she chaired the board of directors of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) from 2008 to 2012 and the National Cancer Institute (INCA) from 2011 to 2016, which did not prevent her from remaining a member of the boards of directors of the pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Bristol-Myers-Squibb. Member of the medical and scientific council of the French Establishment of Transplants then of the Biomedicine Agency since 2005, she is also, since 2009, member of the Atomic Energy Committee and, since 2013, member of the High Council for Programs.
Since March 2016, she has chaired the college of the French National Authority for Health (HAS) responsible for evaluating drugs reimbursed by Social Security. This regular guest of the Nile, a lobbying firm in the pharmaceutical industry, presented by Liberation as a "great bourgeois […] on the left" (December 29, 2011), talked, on December 3, 2014, in front of the Charles de Montesquieu lodge of Grand Orient de France on the topic of "For health, does prevention benefit from a risk management policy?" ", And, on October 15, 2015, on" The end of children's lives "(she stated that she was" in favor of the Belgian area of freedom ", that is to say for the decriminalization of euthanasia [which is consistent with his mother in law, Simone Veil, who is the one who legalized abortion in France]
On April 26, she was received by David de Rothschild for a presentation to the FondaMental Foundation (fight against mental illnesses).