Created by the architect Philippe Gazeau, this building aims to help the hospital better interacting with the town, notably through more modernity and an innovative way to apprehend issues such as comfort, reliability of care, security, rapidity of intervention and quality of reception. However the architect managed to conceive a structure respectful of users’ perception of the hospital, whether they are patients, families or nursing staff.

Necker-Enfants Malades was the first pediatric hospital in the world, created at the beginning of the 19th century.  Under the influence of great pediatric visionnaries like Robert Debré and Pierre Royer, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital has made its mark as an international reference for research on the diseases of childhood.

Robert Debré		Pierre Royer		Jean Frézal		Jérôme Lejeune		Maurice Lamy		Jean Hambruger

Generations of great medical doctors and researchers have followed among whom are Maurice Lamy and Jean Frézal, pioneers in molecular genetics, Jérôme Lejeune, discoverer of trisomy 21 in 1959, and Jean Hamburger, the first in the world to perform a kidney transplant in 1952.  During the last twenty years, doctors and researchers have together identified the genetic and molecular bases of numerous diseases and have contributed to cell and gene therapies as well as to the development of prenatal and pre-implantation diagnostics, two powerful methods to detect genetic diseases before birth.