Voir & Entendre Foundation
The Voir & Entendre Foundation is a scientific cooperation foundation dedicated to diseases of the different sensory systems. It is the entity that coordinates and supports the research projects of the Institut de la Vision.
Vision diseases: a global public health issue
Out of a global population of approximately 7.8 billion people, it is estimated that 43.3 million are blind. The prevalence of eye diseases - and therefore of blindness - increases with age: most blind people are 50 years of age or older. With the increase in life expectancy, a sharp increase in the number of patients is expected by 2040, with 111.8 million cases of glaucoma and 288 million cases of AMD. Not to mention rare diseases, which are also a major source of visual impairment and blindness, such as retinitis pigmentosa and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON).
Public and private governance at the service of research
Since its creation in 2007, the Voir & Entendre Foundation has been supported by five founding members: the Quinze-Vingts National Hospital, the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, Sorbonne University and the French Federation of the Blind and Amblyopic. Four other founding members have since joined: the CNRS and the Foundation for Hearing, the AP-HP and the Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital.
The Steering Committee
President: Mr. José-Alain SAHEL
Treasurer: Mr. François PELEN
Director: Mr. Emmanuel GUTMAN
Scientific Director: Mr. Serge PICAUD
Secretary General: Mrs. Dominique SANTIARD-BARON
Financial Director: Mr. Pierre BEUCHET
The Board of Directors and its composition
The Voir et Entendre Foundation has a Board of Directors composed of the nine founders, qualified personalities, representatives of the economic world, local and regional authorities as well as elected representatives of teachers, researchers, teacher-researchers and other staff. It defines the strategic choices and approves the budgets and accounts of the Institute.
15-20 National Hospital
Nicolas PÉJU, Director General
Institut Pasteur
François ROMANEIX, Deputy Director General for Administration
Nathalie de PARSEVAL, Scientific Secretary General
Inserm
Thomas LOMBES, Deputy Director General (Strategy)
Elli CHATZOPOULOU, Director of Partnerships and External Relations
Sorbonne University
Nathalie DRACH-TEMAM, President
José-Alain SAHEL, Emeritus Professor of Hospital Medicine
French Federation of the Blind and Amblyopic
Julien ZELELA, President of the FAF Sports Commission
CNRS
Bernard POULAIN, Deputy Scientific Director of CNRS Biologie
Fondation Pour l’Audition
Armand de BOISSIÈRE, Secretary General of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Erik DOMAIN, Director of Relations with Universities and Research Organizations
Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital
Julien GOTTSMANN, Director General
Qualified personalities
Henri CHIBRET
Alain GAUDRIC
Representative of local and regional authorities
Pierre DENIZIOT, Regional Councilor of the Ile-de-France region, in charge of disability, universal accessibility and the republican promise
Representative of the economic world
François PELEN, Founder of Groupe Point Vision
Elected representatives of researchers, teacher-researchers and other staff
Annabelle REAUX-LE GOAZIGO, Inserm Research fellow, team leader at the Institut de la Vision
Valentina EMILIANI, CNRS Research Director, team leader at the Institut de la Vision