Professor Axel Kahn officially left, Tuesday 1er June, the presidency of the National League against cancer. He had already withdrawn, because of his state of health. “Professor Daniel Nizri, until then vice-president, has been appointed to act as interim” and “Will remain in touch with Axel Kahn”, let know the association on Twitter after the meeting of its board of directors.
The League Against Cancer announced on May 11 that Mr. Kahn, 76, would step down due to a “Cancer that s’[était] recently worsened “. Since then, the geneticist and essayist has spoken several times in the media and on Twitter to recount his fight against the disease and to express his feelings about the approaching death.
“A rich and beautiful life has an outcome that is part of it, like the final punctuation of a beautiful story. It can even be its significant illumination. A blazing twilight after so many bluish dawns ”, he tweeted on Tuesday. He held the head of the League against cancer as a volunteer since June 2019.