Alain Chapel's Biography

Alain Chapel, Scientific investigator, Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety

Dr Alain CHAPEL is the principal investigator of laboratory Gene and Cell Therapy for the Institute of radioprotection and nuclear safety, He developed gene therapy of non human primate to protect against side effects of radiation. He has a strong implication in regenerative medicine. He collaborates with clinicians to develop new strategies for treatment of patients after radiation accidents or radiotherapy overexposures. He has published more than 50 papers in this area. In recent year he got some important success in several patient treatment using stem cells. In animal model, he can propose mechanisms to explain the successful of these new therapeutically correction approaches.