Michel Fardeau
French researcher (1929–2024)
Michel Fardeau (24 October 1929 – 6 December 2024) was a French researcher in medical pathology, and a pioneering founder in France of myology, a medical discipline treating diseases of the neuromuscular system. He was also a full professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in a chair dedicated to the social integration of disabled people.
Biography
Michel Fardeau was born in Paris on 24 October 1929. He was a student at the Lycée Voltaire and then completed his secondary studies from 1939 to 1945 at the Collège du Blanc (Indre). Major at the PCB (section C) in 1946, he was an external then Internal of the Paris Hospitals (1954) then Chief of Clinic (1959-1960). He joined the CNRS at the end of his internship, where he spent his entire scientific career, from trainee (1959) to Research Director (1977). He was also a Research Fellow of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in Bethesda (USA), (1967-1968).
In 1960, he created an Electron Microscopy laboratory at La Salpêtrière to study human neuromuscular pathology. This laboratory will become the CNRS Research Team in 1971, then the Inserm Research Unit from 1976 to 1998. On this date, he became the first Medical and Scientific Director of the new Institute of Myology, created by the French Agency against Myopathies (AFM-Telethon) at the Hospital de la Pitié Salpêtrière.
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