Endocrine Abstracts

Hubert Vaudry, France-. Abstract

Dr Hubert Vaudry is Director of Research at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the French National Institute for Health, and Director of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neuroendocrinology at the University of Rouen. He was born in February 1946 in Le Havre, Normandy, and obtained his PhD at the University of Rouen in 1974. He then worked in Canada for two years as a post-doctoral fellow, at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) and Laval University (Quebec). He obtained a Doctor of Science degree in 1979 at the University of Rouen and has developed one of the most productive groups in the field of neuroendocrinology.

Dr Vaudry is involved in a number of International Committees and Advisory Boards. He is the author of 800 publications in first rank scientific journals and has presented over 1450 communications or lectures in international congresses. Previous awards include the Descartes-Huygens Prize for scientific cooperation between France and the Netherlands, and the Prize of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He has been appointed as Invited Professor in several Universities including the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands (1982–1983), Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan (1986), and the University of Turin, Italy (1989).

Dr Vaudry is the Chairman of the European Institute for Peptide Research, a major multidisciplinary institute working in the field of biologically active peptides. He is also the Chairman of the Research and Education Network for Neuroscience (LARC-Neuroscience network). He is a former President of the International Federation of Comparative Endocrinology Societies (1997–2001), the European Society for Comparative Endocrinology (1998–2002) and the Société de Neuroendocrinologie (2001–2004).