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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.

Scientific background

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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

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

Books

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  •    La Rage d'espérer. La génétique au quotidien, Plon Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 2259189849)
  •    Programmé mais libre, Plon Editions, 2016 (ISBN 2259230091)

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

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