Yann Barrandon#
Education
- 1969-1977: Medical Studies, Lariboisière-Saint Louis Medical School, University Paris VII, France
- 1979: Diploma Cytology - Histology, Faculty of Sciences, University Paris VI, France
- 1981: MD,(with Honors)
- 1981: National Board in Dermatology, France
- 1982: Ph. D. in Cytology - Histology, Faculty of Sciences, University Paris VI, France
- 1989: Molecular Cloning of Eukaryotic Genes Course - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
Expert
MRC UK, BBSRC UK, Wellcome Trust UK, German Ministry of Health, AERES France, Inserm France, Etablissement Français des Greffes, MRC Australia, Singapore, FNS, Swiss National Council, EMBO. Member of the Board of Directors of the European Tissue Repair Society, 1990-1995. Member of the Board of Directors of the European Tissue Engineering Society (TERMIS), 2003-present. Member of the Faculty Council, Life Sciences EPFL, 2006-2008. Member of the Ethics Committee, EPFL, since 2007. Member of the Ethical Committee for Human Research of the Canton de Vaud since 2010. Member of several PhD thesis jury, Unil, EPFL, France. President of the Review Committee for the 2010 research call “stem cells” of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
Reviewer
Cell, Nature, Science, Genes and Development, J. Cell Biol., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., PLoS Biology, Development, Mech. Dev., J. Cell Sci., Human Gene Ther., J. Invest. Dermatol., etc.
Clinical Trial
Barrandon, Y. coordinator, INSERM promotor. (1993). "Evaluation of a fibrin matrix to transplant autologous cultured epitheliums in extensive burns". N° DGS 930089. This work was done in collaboration with the Percy Military Hospital Burn Center, Clamart, France. Results are published in Ronfard et al., Transplantation, 2000.
Conferences
Yann Barrandon has been invited to speak over 500 conferences and seminars worldwide on the biology and the therapeutic use of cutaneous stem cells.
Other activities
Yann Barrandon has been invited to many Keystone Symposia and Gordon Conferences (2003-2011).
He organized the Advanced Stem Cell Research, Eurostemcell – EMBO, in Lausanne, Sept 2006.
He is a member of the EMBO, of the Ethical Committee of the EPFL and since 2010 of the Commission d'Ethique du Canton de Vaud. Since 2011 he is member of the Advisory Editorial Board for EMBO Molecular Medicine.
He is teaching at the bachelor, master level and doctoral school at the EPFL (best teacher award Life Sciences at the EPFL 2006 and 2009) and is mentor for bachelor, master projects, as well as Thesis Director at the EPFL and UniL. He was also member of numerous PhD evalutations at the UniL, EPFL and in France.
He was one of the teacher at the Hydra Summerschool (2005-2011), and at the StemCells Latinamerica Summerschool 2009.
2010 he was President of the Review Committee for the research call “stem cells” of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
He is also participating in numerous public outreach activities, such as radio and TV presentations or conferences.
