Education

2012 HDR, University of Evry, France.
2000 Ph.D., University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
1995 B.Sc., University of Lyon, France

 

Positions held

2020-2025 Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
2016-

Professor University of Montpellier, France. INSERM, Molecular Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Montpellier, France.

2012-2015

Professor University of Montpellier, France. INSERM U1051, Institut for Neurosciences of Montpellier.

2009-2012

Research Professor, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science.

2011

Invited Research Director, CNRS, Montpellier, France.

2009 Invited Research Director, CNRS, Paris, France.
2006-2009 Research Director, European Community/INSERM, Montpellier, France.
2002-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, University McGill, Montreal, Canada.
1997-2000 Ph.D. Student, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.


Honors

2007 5th European ALS meeting, travel price, Saint Gallen, Switzerland.
2000-2002 University McGill fellowship, Montreal, Canada.
2000 Swiss Society for Neuroscience, travel price, FENS meeting.



Research support

ONGOING  
2018-2021 Verticale, spinal cord injured patient organization. PostDoc grant of Y.N. Gerber and running costs of the laboratory.

2015-2018

Agence Nationale pour la Recherche/Swiss National Science Foundation (France and Switzerland).

France: Coordinator, F.E. Perrin, participant C. Raoul (INSERM); Switzerland: Coordinator, P. Aebischer, participant B. Schneider (EPFL, Lausanne). "From knowledge base of the pathogenic astrocyte-motoneuron communication in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to therapeutic approaches"

2015-2018 Labex NUMEV/Verticale. Ph.D. salary of G. Saint-Martin. Contribution of MRI to spinal cord injury.

2014-2017

Verticale, spinal cord injured patient organization. PostDoc grant of H.N. Noristani and running costs of the laboratory.

2014-2015

Demain Debout Aquitaine, spinal cord injured patient organization. Master Students grant.

 COMPLETED

 

2013-2014

Verticale, spinal cord injured patient organization. Equipment and running costs of the laboratory. P.I.: F.E. Perrin.

2013-2014

Demain Debout Aquitaine, spinal cord injured patient organization. Master Students grant. 

2012-2015

Basque Government (Spain). Glial cell involvement in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. P.I. : F.E. Perrin.

2012-2013

Demain Debout Aquitaine, spinal cord injured patient organization. Post doctorant salary. P.I.: H.N. Noristani.

2012-2013

Aquitaine / Euskadi (France and Spain)

Pathophysiology of the spinal cord. P.I.s : F.E. Perrin and J.R. Cazalets (Bordeaux, France)

2010-2013

Proyectos de investigación en salud. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain). P.I. : F.E. Perrin. Glial cell involvement in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: a genomics approach.

2010-2012

Ladies Circle Association : French National Priority for 2 years. In collaboration with the patient organization "Verticale" research projects on spinal cord injury are supported.

2010-2011 Demain Debout Aquitaine, spinal cord injured patient organization. Equipment Ph.D. salary of Y. N. Gerber and Master student grant. P.I.: F.E. Perrin.
2010-2011 Institut pour la Recherche  sur la Moelle Epinière (France). Pre-clinical study of glial scar inhibition in domestic pig: molecular tools and experimental surgery. P.I.: J. Mallet (Paris, France), co-investigator A. Privat (Montpellier, France) and F.E. Perrin (Bilbao, Spain).
2009-2011 IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science. Projects on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injury. P.I.: F.E. Perrin.
2008-2009

Verticale, spinal cord injured patient organization. Equipment. P.I.: F.E. Perrin.

2007-2008

Fondation de l'Avenir pour la Recherche Médicale Appliquée, France. Project on human motoneuron gene profiling. P.I.: F.E. Perrin.

2007-2008 Institute for Neuroscience of Montpellier (France). Project on exercise-induced neuroprotection.P.Is.: F.E. Perrin and Hugnot.

2003-2005

International Institute for Research in Paraplegia, (Switzerland). Projects on motoneuron gene profiling. P.I.: A.C. Kato and F.E. Perrin (co-investigator).

2002-2004 Association Française Contre les Myopathies (France). Projects on motoneuron gene profiling. P.I.: A.C. Kato and F.E. Perrin (co-investigator).

 

Editorial board

2013- Frontiers in Neurodegeneration
2012- Neuroscience Journal

 

Teaching

France

2012- Neuroscience lectures, Faculty of Science, University of Montpellier.
2009 Neuroscience lectures, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montpellier.
2006-2008 Neuroscience lectures, Faculty of Science, University of Montpellier

 

Spain

2009-2012 Neuroscience lectures, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Basque Country.


Switzerland

2003-2006 Neuroscience lectures (molecular neurobiology), Faculty of Medicine, Universities of Geneva and of Lausanne.
2004-2006 Bio-imagery lectures (laser microdissection), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva.
2004 Instructor of physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva.
2002-2006 Brain Week, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva.
1998-2000 Instructor of neurobiology. Biocentre, University of Basel.