Diane Berger, edited by Manon Fossat 5:04 p.m., August 19, 2021, modified at 5:04 p.m., August 19, 2021

The Public Assistance of Marseille and Aix-Marseille University, founding members of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, have announced that they do not want to extend the mandate of Didier Raoult.

Especially at 69 years old, the microbiologist has reached the age limit to continue his activity as a university professor.

The controversial Marseille doctor, Didier Raoult, is being pushed towards the exit. For the start of the school year, the microbiologist may indeed no longer be at the head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection which he created and which he has been piloting since 2011, according to information from the newspaper

Le Monde. 

The Assistance publique de Marseille and Aix-Marseille University, founding members of the IHU, have announced that they do not want to extend the mandate of the microbiologist. Officially for a matter of money.

Didier Raoult is 69 years old and at the end of August, retirement obliges, he will no longer be a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille.

He will no longer be a hospital practitioner.

He would indeed have asked the APHM, the public assistance of hospitals in Marseille, the right to combine employment and retirement.

However, according to information from

Le Monde

, the health establishment does not intend to grant him this arrangement.

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Find him a successor

Under these conditions, it is difficult for the University and the Public Assistance to consider extending its mandate to the University Hospital Institute in Infectious Diseases.

The latter therefore require the launch of a call for tenders to find a successor.

And they obviously want a recognized researcher in the field of infectious diseases.

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But for the moment nothing has been done yet.

Because it will also be necessary to convince the other members of the Board of Directors of the IHU, including Renaud Muselier, the president of the PACA region, who regularly supported Professor Raoult.