After the completion of his PhD in the lab of cell therapy of diabetes in Lille where he was doing human pancreatic islet isolation for engraftment in type 1 diabetic patients, he moved in several well-known European research labs to complete his training and to increase his knowledge on the natural history of the different forms of diabetes. His resrach interests include fetal programming of metabolic syndrome by modification of maternal feeding, fetal programming effect of maternal gestational diabetes, placental biology, mesenchymal stem cells biology and differentiation and beta-cell reprogramming.