Ignacio Anegon

Ignacio Anegon
Directeur de Recherche, INSERM, Nantes, France

Biography

Ignacio ANEGON was born in Uruguay August 29th 1956 He received his Medical Doctor degree from the Universidad de la Républica del Uruguay in 1982 Duri Between 1979 and 1982he worked in clinical immunology in the University Hospital Ignacio ANEGON did his postdoctoral work in the Immunology Department of the University Hospital of Barcelona between 1982 and 1985 His research was on the generation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against human leukocytes as well as application of cytofluorimetry and monoclonal antibodies for typing human leukemias and lymphomas Between 1985 and 1988 he was Associate Scientist at the Wistar Institute University of Pennsylvania His area of research was on Fc61543; receptors and human NK cell biology with the use of cellular and molecular biology techniquesIn 1988 he was visiting scientist at the Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale INSERM in Nantes France In 1989 he obtained a permanent position at the INSERM Since he has been working in France his research focused in Transplantation Immunology mainly immunoregulation by dendritic cells and by CD8 Tregs and in Functional Genomics mainly transfer using viral vectors and the generation of transgenic and knockout ratsHe is now Director of Research at the INSERM and Director of the INSERM unit 643 and scientific director of the Nantes Rat Transgenesis platform He has published more than 155 papers edited 2 books and is Editor-in-chief of the journal Current Gene Therapy and it is PubMed indexed.

Research Interest

Transplantation immunology, immunoregulatory cells (Dendritic cells, CD8+ Tregs), gene transfer using viral vectors and generation of transgenic animals