Alain Chédotal

Alain Chédotal has been a member of EMBO since 2019, of the Academia Europaea since 2016 and of the French Academy of sciences since 2017 and was President of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Medical Research (2020-2022).

In 2018, Alain Chédotal is coordinating Inserm's transversal HuDeCA research programme, which aims to establish the cellular mapping of the human embryo. He is a member of the organizing committee of the permanent exhibition "Cerveau" at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.

Alain Chédotal studied biology at the Lycée Clemenceau (Nantes) and joined the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1988. He is moving into Neuroscience research after an internship in Dr. Edith Hamel's laboratory at the Montreal Neurological Institute (Canada), where he will also spend a year as a cooperator. Back in France, he enrolled in a PhD thesis in the Inserm team of Dr Constantino Sotelo at the Salpêtrière Hospital and Pierre et Marie Curie University (currently Sorbonne University). He will study the migration of neurons in mouse embryos and the development of connections between the brain stem and the cerebellum. He joined Dr. Corey Goodman's laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) for a post-doctoral fellowship where he contributed to the identification of new receptors involved in axon guidance and various diseases, including cancers. Alain Chédotal was recruited at Inserm in 1997 and set up his own team first at the Salpêtrière Hospital, then on the Jussieu campus, before joining the Institut de la Vision in 2008 (Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts). During his career, Alain Chédotal acquired multidisciplinary experience in Neuroanatomy, Experimental Embryology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Imaging.

Alain Chédotal (born 18 September 1967 in Nantes) is a French researcher specialising in the development of neural circuits. He has been a member of the French Academy of sciences since 2017.