Franck Perez's Biography

Franck Perez, Group Leader, Institut Curie

Dr. Franck Perez is Research Director at CNRS and group leader in the Cell Biology Section of the Curie Institute (Paris, France). His group is studying intracellular organization and trafficking with an important focus on the development of new methods and tools for Cell Biology studies. In addition, his group have strongly invested on the development of recombinant antibodies for cell biology using antibody phage display. Recently he created a novel antibody library based on a humanized single domain scaffold and, in association with Dr. S. Amigorena, created a therapeutic antibody platform. Dr. F. Perez authored more than 60 scientific articles and filled fours patents. He is Scientific Director of the cell screening platform Biophenics and of the Therapeutic Antibody platform TAbIP and the head of the "Dynamics of Intracellular Organization" team at the Institut Curie. He is also consultant for the Theravectys biotech company (Villejuif, France).