Luc Zimmer

Luc Zimmer is currently a Professor of pharmacology at the University of Lyon, France (Faculty of Pharmacy) and is a hospital practitioner at the University Hospital of Lyon (CERMEP, PET Department). He received a pharmacist education at the University of Strasbourg (1986–1992) and completed training during his internship and residency in radiopharmacy and radiopharmacology (1993–1999) at the Hospital University of Tours (Nuclear Medicine Department) and at the National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technology (INSTN, Saclay). He received his PharmD in radiopharmacology and his Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from the University of Tours. He joined the Hospital University of Lyon in 1999 as a nuclear pharmacist and radiopharmacologist at Biomedical Cyclotron (CERMEP). After obtaining the authorization to direct research, he took a position of Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lyon in 2002. In 2005, he was promoted as a Full Professor of pharmacology and was appointed as the Director of the new Laboratory of Neuropharmacology of the University of Lyon. Since april 2008, he has also been the head of the preclinical department of the CERMEP imaging center (Animage: a multimodal imaging platform for small animal research). He is working in the area of brain molecular imaging, particularly in the field of the serotoninergic neuropharmacology. His research interests include the development and evaluation of novel PET radiopharmaceuticals for brain diagnostic imaging in mood disorders.

Biography Updated on 24 August 2009

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