Sylvain Lehmann's Biography

Sylvain Lehmann, Professor, University Hospital Montpellier

Prof. Sylvain Lehmann was trained as an M.D./ Ph.D. (1992, Strasbourg, France). He was the recipient of a Howard Hughes fellowship (1993-97, Washington University, St Louis, MO USA). From 1997, he was a Senior Researcher of the French National Research Institut (INSERM) and in 2003 he obtained a position of professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School of Montpellier (France). His main research focuses on neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer, Prion..) and on clinical proteomics. He is a vice-president of the French National Society of Clinical Biology (SFBC) in charge of its Scientific Committee and he chairs the Working Group “Clinical Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Proteomics” of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and laboratory medicine (IFCC).