Pierre Leopold - Biography#

Pierre Léopold graduated from the University of Nice and trained Drosophila developmental genetics as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He then obtained a CNRS starting grant to return to France where he created his own group. He has a current appointment at the University of Nice (Institute of Biology Valrose) as a Research Director for the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Over the recent years, he has developed a research interest for the control of tissue growth using Drosophila as a model organism. His work primarily focuses on the understanding of systemic mechanisms controlling organismal growth. This led him to dissect some of the organ cross-talks and molecular mechanisms orchestrating the nutritional response and the control of growth. More recently, his laboratory has demonstrated the importance of organ-organ communications in the mechanisms of growth coordination and the determination of final organ size.

Education:

• 1999 National Habilitation for Research Direction (HDR, University of Nice)
  
• 1990-1993 Postdoctoral : UCSF, San Francisco; advisor: P. O’Farrell
  
• 1982-1989 Graduate: University of Nice; advisor: F. Cuzin
  
• 1979-1984 Undergraduate: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Saint Cloud, France

• 2005- Research Director, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
  
• 1988 - 2004 Research Scientist, INSERM
  
• 1990 - 1993 Post Doctoral Fellow, UCSF, INSERM/Fogarty
  
• 1984 - 1988 Research Assistant, Ligue contre le Cancer, France
  
• 1979 - 1984 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Saint Cloud, France

• 2019 - present Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit, Institut Curie, Paris
  
• 1998 - 2018 Group Leader, Institute for Biology Valrose (iBV), University of Nice
  
• 1993 - 1997 ATIPE CNRS, Villefranche-sur-mer

• 2017 - 2021 ERC Advanced grant (2.5M€)
  
• 2016 - 2017 ARC Labelled team 35000€
  
• 2011 - 2016 ERC Advanced grant (2.5M€)
  
• 2009 - 2011 FRM research grant (300 000€)
  
• 2008 - 2011 ANR research grant (400 000€)
  

• Reviewer for Nature, Cell, Science, Nature Genet., Dev.Cell, Nat.Cell Biol., Genes&Dev., Current Biol., Cell Metab., Development, Dev. Biol., Cell Death Diff., PloS Biology, PlosOne, The Swiss Cancer Ligue (Oncosuisse), The Welcome Trust, The NSF, The French ANR, the ERC
  
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK, and the MRC-LMS, London, UK
  
• Member of evaluation panels for the Crick Institute, London, UK
  
• Board of the French Society for Developmental Biology (SFBD) (2004-2006)
  
• Scientific Board National Research Agency (ANR) Biology (2005-2006, 2015-)
  
• National Selection Committee of the INSERM (2008- 2012)
  
• AERES evaluation committee (member/president) for: Institut Curie, 2008; ENS Paris, 2009; ENS Lyon 2010; IGBMC, Strasbourg, 2012; Institut Curie, 2013, IGFL, Lyon, 2020
  
• Evaluation Committee, Beatson institute, Glasgow, UK (2015)
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of Development, Phil Trans R Soc B.