Marion Leboyer MD, PhD

Marion Leboyer, M.D., Ph.D., is currently appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry at the faculty of the University of Paris East in France. She is head of the University-affiliated department of Psychiatry (Groupe Hospitalier Mondor, Assistance-Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris). She also runs a Psychiatry Genetic laboratory belonging to INSERM (Paris). Since 2007, she has been the executive director of the FondaMental Foundation, recently created by the French Ministry of Research. This Foundation is dedicated to creating a network of expert centers for bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and high-level autism, promoting research in Psychiatry, assuring professional education in Psychiatry, and increasing public awareness of psychiatric diseases.

Dr. Leboyer has authored or co-authored more than 230 scientific articles and book chapters, as well as 5 books on a range of topics focusing on bipolar disorder, autism, and schizophrenia. Marion Leboyer’s research efforts contributed to the better identification of relevant phenotypes for genetic studies. She has been able to produce prominent findings such as in autism the identification of the first mutations of genes implicated in synaptogenesis.