CV Science

Frédéric Fumeron Associate Professor

Course and current status

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor in Physiology, at the University of Paris Diderot – Paris 7, Xavier Bichat Medical School, France. Researcher at the INSERM U695 “Genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes and its vascular complications” (Pr Michel Marre, director).

UNIVERSITARY DEGREES AND POSITIONS

1991    Associate Professor, University Paris Diderot – Paris 7

1991    State Doctorate in Human Biology. University Paris 7 (UFR X. Bichat) : ‘’Variations in human plasma lipoprotein levels: effects of nutritional and genetic factors’’.

1986    Statistics in Medical Biology + Statistics in Epidemiology. University Paris VI - CESAM

1981    Assistant Professor, University Paris 7 (UFR X. Bichat)

1979    PhD (Imunogenetics and Imunopathology) University Paris 7 - UER Hematology

1977    MSc Physiology + General Human Biology, University Paris 7

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC RESPONSABILITIES

2000-  Team head at the INSERM Unit U695 “Genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes and its vascular complications” (director Pr. Michel MARRE)

1996-2000 Head of the Human Nutrition Laboratory, Faculté Xavier Bichat, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7

1989-1996 Head of the team "Genetics" at the INSERM U286 (Human Nutrition, director Pr. Marian APFELBAUM)

Scientific summary

MAIN INTEREST IN RESEARCH

Interactions between nutritional and genetic factors in adipocyte and lipid metabolisms: studies in obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk.

CURRENT WORKS

Association studies:

Genetic polymorphisms of the HDL and reverse cholesterol transport pathway, of adipokines and their expression regulating factors, in relation with cardiovascular risk and susceptibility to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, in prospective cohorts, in particular D.E.S.I.R. (general population) and DIABHYCAR (type 2 diabetic patients).