Barritault Denis

Biography

Denis Barritault has graduated in Physics and completed his PhD in Biochemistry from Paris University, France. He has received his Postdoctoral studies in Molecular Immunology at Pasteur Institute and NYU and as NIH Fogarty Fellow he has joined INSERM unit in Paris as Developmental Biologist. He made the first description and patents of FGF extracted from retina in 1979 and 1982 as skin and cornea healing agent and became full Professor at Paris-Est University in 1985. He has also Founded and Directed a CNRS Laboratory on cell and tissue regeneration until 2003. He is currently a President of OTR3, Emeritus Professor,Honorary Director of CRRET CNRS unit and is the author in over 200 publications and 30 patents.

Research Interest

His research interest is in cell and tissue regeneration and developmental biology.