Symposium Speaker

Bertrand Friguet

Bertrand Friguet is Professor at the Life Science Department of the University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, since 2007 and he is heading the Research Unit 4 "Aging, Stress and Inflammation" since 2009. He was student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan and has got the Agregation in Biochemistry in 1981. He has defended his first thesis in 1984 and his PhD in Biochemistry in 1987 at the University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 under the supervision of Prof Michel Goldberg at the Pasteur Institute. He has been hired as teaching and research assistant at the University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 in 1984 and has got his Habilitation in 1991. He was visiting associate in Dr. Earl Stadtman laboratory at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland (1993-1994) and junior member at the Institut Universitaire de France (1995-2000). He was the head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry and Biology of Aging at University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (1997-2008). During the EU Framework Programme 5, he has coordinated the Shared Cost Action Protage on "The role of proteasome in human ageing" (2000-2003). He was partner of the Project Zincage (2004-2007) and Proteomage (2006-2011) during the EU Framework Programme 6. He is currently partner and workpackage leader of the Integrated Projects Mark-Age and MyoAge for the EU Framework Programme 7. The major focus of his team is to elucidate the role of protein oxidative modifications and protein maintenance in cellular aging and upon oxidative stress. So far, he has been co-author of 114 papers referenced in PubMed and co-inventor in 5 patents. He is editor of the Experimental section of Gerontology, member of the editorial boards of Biogerontology and Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine and member of the scientific societies SFBBM, ASBMB and SFRR-Europe.

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