Yann Herault

Biography

 Yann Herault obtained his PhD on the transcription regulation of clusterin at the ENS in Lyon in 1993. He then became interested in developmental biology and joined D. Duboule's laboratory at the University of Geneva in order to study Hox genes regulation. He became interested in Down's syndrome and created a resource of trisomic mice models for almost the entire Down's syndrome homolog genes in mouse. In 2007, he led the Transgenesis and Archiving of Animal Models unit in Orleans. He joined the IGBMC in 2010 as the director of the Mouse Clinic Institute and since then leads a team aiming at mapping relations between genotypes and phenotype in Down's syndrome. In 2010, he won the Price Young Investigator FRM ALSACE.

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