Stanislas Lyonnet
Stanislas Lyonnet is a French geneticist. As of 2012 he was Professor of genetics at Paris Descartes University, and a clinical geneticist in the Department of Medical Genetics at the Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades. His research is aimed at isolating the genes that cause congenital malformation and birth defects. Biography. Lyonnet studied Paediatrics and Genetics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University. He obtained his Doctorate in Medicine, specializing in Pediatrics, in 1989. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the Institut Cochin and a PhD in Genetics from Necker in 1992. In 1995 he was made  a Full Professor in the Genetic Department of the Paris Descartes Medical School. He was responsible for the Rare Disease Research Program of the French national agency for research (ANR). Lyonnet has been a member of the board of the European Society of Human Genetics and its scientific program committee. He is a section editor of the "European Journal of Human Genetics", and is on the editorial boards of "Human Molecular Genetics" and "Clinical Dysmorphology". He teaches in the European Master of Genetics program at the Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot universities. He is also a member of the INSERM  Scientific Advisory Board. Research. In 2007, he created the "Laboratoire International Associé Franco-Marocain of Genetics", co-directed by Professor Abdelaziz Sefiani of the University of Rabat Medical School in Morocco. He is principal investigator and leader of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale group on "Genetics and embryology of congenital malformations". This group is a founding member of the Imagine Foundation (Institut des Maladies Génétiques). His research team at Imagine focuses on forms of neurocristopathy and fetal syndromes that result from abnormal development of primary cilium and planar polarity. In 2009 INSERM awarded him  a prize for his research. Publications. A selection of Lyonnet's publications: References. Citations Sources