Marc Tardieu

Marc Tardieu
Professor, Université Paris Sud,
Hôpitaux universitaires Paris Sud,
Institut Pasteur and INSERM, France

Marc Tardieu is Professor of paediatrics (neurology), head of paediatric neurology service, head of research laboratory INSERM unit 1012, Université Paris South, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Sud.

He has been trained in pediatrics, paediatric neurology, immunology and virology, at Université Paris-Sud, Université Catholique de Louvain and Harvard Medical School, Boston. He has been a professor of paediatrics at Université Paris South since 1990. His main interest has been in the infectious and inflammatory diseases of the child brain, their patho-physiology and their epidemiology. He had published close to 300 papers in this field especially on HIV-1 infection, multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, haemophagocytic lymphohistiosis, herpes encephalitis. More recently he developed an intra-cerebral gene therapy trial and recently published a study on the incidence and natural history of MPSIII subtypes.