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ITMO
Capucine Picard MD, PHD
Course and current status
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POSITION TITLE: Professor and Director |
EDUCATION/TRAINING
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INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
Completion Date |
FIELD OF STUDY |
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University of Paris XII, France |
M.D. |
2000 |
Medicine |
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University of Paris XII, France |
Residency |
2000 |
Pediatrics |
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University Descartes Paris V, France |
M.Sc. |
2000 |
Biology |
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University Descartes Paris V, France |
Ph.D. |
2005 |
Immunology |
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University Descartes Paris V, France |
HDR |
2010 |
Immunology |
Scientific summary
I am a pediatrician and immunologist by training. I am co-group leader of the bacterial team of INSERM U1163, Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases laboratory Necker Branch and leader of the hospital laboratory Centre d’étude des déficits immunitaires (Immunodeficiencies Study Center), in Necker Hospital, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France. I am an expert in primary immunodeficiencies, molecular immunology and human genetics of infectious diseases. I have made substantial contributions to the field of human genetic predispositions to infectious diseases, including bacterial diseases with the discoveries of IRAK-4, MYD88, and HOIL1 deficiencies and in the field of primary immunodeficiencies, including the discovery of STIM1 deficiency. I have published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books
