Jean-louis Mandel MD, PhD

Jean-Louis Mandel is Professor of Human Genetics at the Collège de France since 2003. He was Professor of genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Strasbourg, and has been Director of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg from 2002 to 2006. He is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1999. He leads a research team dedicated since 1982 to the analysis of genetic diseases. His laboratory has identified a dozen genes, when mutated, hereditary diseases affecting the nervous system or muscle.