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Jean-Leon Thomas, PhD

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Biography

Jean-Léon Thomas performed a PhD. in developmental biology with Pr. Nicole Le Douarin at Collège de France (Paris), and postgraduate studies on glial cell development with Bernard ZALC at INSERM, Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris). He was nominated Associate Professor at the University of Marne la Vallée in 1997 and Research Director at INSERM in 2005. Until 2010, he was heading a research group on ‘Oligodendrocyte development and Neurovascular interactions’ at the Research Center of the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute, Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris). JL THOMAS has an Associate Professor position at the Neurology Department of the Yale School of Medicine and is member of the Yale Stem Cell Center.

Appointments

Education & Training

PhD
University of Paris (1992)
MSc
University of Nantes (1981)

Research

Overview

Projet 1: Hox paralog group 2 genes in oligodendrocyte development and myelin repair

(funded by ARSEP, 2010)


Projet 2: Neurogenesis through VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 signaling

(funded by ANR 2010)

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Cell Differentiation; Cell Proliferation; Neurogenesis; Stem Cells

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Jean-Leon Thomas's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

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