Dr Richard Redon

Email: Richard.Redon@univ-nantes.fr
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Richard Redon has been appointed Senior Researcher by the Inserm in March 2009. As laureate of the Inserm/CNRS young investigator program 2009, he leads a new research group working on the genetics of sudden cardiac death at the ‘institut du thorax’ in Nantes, France. He obtained his PhD at the University of Strasbourg and was awarded the Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Human Genetics in 2002. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in 2006 at the Sanger Institute (UK) then focused on Copy Number Variation (CNV) discovery with high-density array CGH. Redon has led several breakthroughs in the field of genomics including establishing the first detailed map of copy number variations in humans.