IMPC now headed by a 3 member Senior Leadership Team

Radislav Sedlácek (PhD), a leading expert in molecular genetics and genome editing, is the Director of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (CCP) in Prague. CCP is a Czech national research infrastructure in rodent model generation and phenotyping, and part of the Institute of Molecular Genetics (IMG) of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Radislav has dedicated his career to the study and development of transgenic technologies and model gene functions. His specialisation is devoted mainly to studies in metabolism, immunology, craniofacial development, and the gastrointestinal tract through the use of mouse models.

Credit for photo 1 (R. Sedlácek): BIOCEV

Yann Herault (PhD) is the Director of Institut Clinique de la Souris (ICS) in Strasbourg, France. ICS is one of three research centres forming PHENOMIN, the French National Infrastructure for mouse phenogenomics. Yann is also a Team Leader at the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) where he focuses on translational medicine and neurogenetics. He researches and identifies dosage-sensitive genes implicated in intellectual disabilities (IDs), such as Down syndrome and 16p11.2 syndromes.

Steve Brown, now Past Chair of IMPC, congratulates his new team mates: “Radislav and Yann will bring a wealth of expertise, judgement and foresight to the leadership of IMPC. In 2021, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of IMPC´s foundation, and increasingly focus on large-scale functional studies of human genetic variation. These are exciting times for IMPC!”