Holding a PhD in Public Health (1999) with a strong emphasis on statistical genetics, his research career began with the development of statistical methods to analyze family data and genetic polymorphisms in the context of candidate association studies. He then shifted to the development and application of statistical and bioinformatics tools for analyzing high-throughput microarray and next-generation sequencing data.
These expertises led him to head the Department of Omics Sciences at the ICAN IHU Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition in Paris from 2011 to 2016, as well as the Genomics and Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases team at the UMR_S 1166 ICAN research center in Paris from 2014 to 2018. In 2019, He joined the University of Bordeaux to co-lead, with Professor Stéphanie Debette, the multi-omics research program on cSVD as part of the RHU SHIVA project. He is a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors.
After spending his previous life practicing and teaching rock’n’roll and acrobatic rock (with salsa also having a small place in his past), David-Alexandre is now dedicating himself wholeheartedly to genomics research and his small family.
