François Feillet

Function Professor / MD
Category MD PhD
Team 1CM
Address CHRU Brabois - Pédiatrie
E-mail f.feillet@chru-nancy.fr
Phone number 03 83 15 47 96

Introduction

Professor of Pediatrics. Head of the Hereditary Metabolic Diseases Reference Center.

University background and professional experiences:

MD/PHD since 2003, 225 PUBMD articles, 290 national and international conferences. Specialist in metabolic diseases, in particular phenylketonuria, organic acidurias and rare diseases linked to metal metabolism.

Educational responsibilities:

Responsible for teaching pediatrics at the Nancy Faculty of Medicine (2006-2019). Responsible for a teaching session in the DIU of hereditary metabolic diseases (member of the pedagogical council).

Administrative responsibilities:

MD/PHD since 2003, 225 PUBMD articles, 290 national and international conferences. Specialist in metabolic diseases, in particular phenylketonuria, organic acidurias and rare diseases linked to metal metabolism.

Currently researching:

Phenylketonuria: evaluation of adult PKU according to their metabolic control.

Organic acidurias: assessment of the cataplerotic state in organic acidurias and in septic shock, and evaluation of different anaplerotic molecules to alleviate this cataplerotic state.

Study of the efficacy of a copper nanocluster in a mouse model of Menkes disease

Study of the efficacy of an iron nanocluster in a mouse model of martial deficiency.

Upcoming research :

Study of the efficacy of a manganese nanocluster in certain forms of CDG

Study of the efficacy of leucine supplementation in cellular models of MELAS syndrome (deficiency of the mtDNA leucine transfer gene: mt3243G>A mutation).

Education:

Teaching of pediatrics and metabolic diseases at faculty level and in the DIU of hereditary metabolic diseases

Thesis supervision in progress:

Audrey Malarde’s thesis: study of the efficacy of a copper nanocluster in a murine model of menkes’ disease

Noémie Cammiciotto’s thesis: in vitro and in vivo study of cataplerosis in organic acidurias and in a murine model of septic shock

Thesis by Zeinab Alsahly on the efficacy of an iron nanocluster in a murine model of martial deficiency

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