Pierre Léopold
French scientist, research director at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research
Pierre Léopold (born 6 May 1960) is a research director at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and a member of the Institut de France. He heads the Unit of Genetics and Developmental Biology (UMR3215 CNRS / U934 Inserm) at the Curie Institute (Paris), and works with his team to understand the growth processes of organisms.
Biography
Pierre Léopold undertook higher education at the Lycée St Louis in Paris and then at the École Normale Supérieure in St Cloud. He defended his university thesis (PhD) in 1990 at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis after working in F. Cuzin's team. He then started a post-doctoral internship from 1990 to 1993 at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the team of Pr. Patrick O'Farrell. He returned to France and created his research team with an ATIP-CNRS funding at the Villefranche-sur-mer Observatory. From 1998 to 2018, he was team leader at the ISBDC of the University of Nice (direction Jacques Pouyssegur), which then became the Institut de Biologie Valrose (dir. S. Noselli). In 2019, he became director of the Unit of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Curie Institute.
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