Arnold Munnich

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Arnold Munnich (born 9 October 1949, in Paris), is a French paediatrician-geneticist. He is the creator and head of the department of medical genetics at the Necker-Enfants malades hospital in Paris. He was an advisor to the President of the Republic from 2007 to 2012 [1] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

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Scientific background

After a doctorate in medicine (1979) and a science thesis (1988) at the Institut Cochin in the U129 unit then headed by Axel Kahn, he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris-Descartes in 1989. He has been head of the Inserm unit "Genetic handicaps of the child" since 1990, succeeding Jean Frézal, where he had done his clinic (1986-1990) at the Necker Hospital in Paris.

After Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the French Republic, Arnold Munnich was appointed Advisor to the President for Biomedical Research and Health. [2]

Arnold Munnich has tried to use molecular genetics in paediatrics and to reconcile clinical and molecular genetics. He is the co-founder and current president of the Imagine Institute of Genetic Diseases [3] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

Distinctions

A 2021 publication found Munnich to be a central researcher for describing rare genetic diseases. [8]

Books

He is the author or co-author of more than 700 scientific publications. [9] [10]

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