The construction of a League against cancer House in the name of Axel Kahn will begin
In Avignon (Vaucluse), the League against cancer will soon launch a League House. It will be named after Professor Axel Kahn, announcesThe Dauphiné Libéré. The first stone was laid on Saturday October 2. The future Maison Ligue 84 will replace the one installed since 1995 in a prefabricated unit provided free of charge by the Department in the parking lot of the health center.
Construction work began in earnest in mid-November, on land acquired from the departmental council and close to the current premises. The site is due to end in spring 2022. The total cost of the project is 887,677 euros, specifies the daily.
A tribute to Professor Axel Kahn
The new building covers an area of which 200 are dedicated to beneficiaries. And 100 m² will be devoted to administrative work.
The name of Professor Axel Kahn was chosen to be affixed as the Maison Ligue. The geneticist and essayist succeeded in the League against cancer from 2019 to 2021. Axel Kahn himself took the initiative to announce that he had an incurable cancer on May 11, 2021. He died on the 6th July 2021.
Axel Kahn, geneticist and former president of the League against cancer, is dead