Past Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Stéphane Viville

Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction SIHCUS-CMCO 19,

 rue Louis Pasteur

67300 Schiltigheim

France Tel : 33 3 88 62 82 80

Fax : 33 3 88 62 82 79

Email: viville@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr

Stéphane Viville (1963) studied Pharmacy at the University Louis Pasteur (ULP) of Strasbourg. In 1991, he defended his PharmD thesis on “On the use of embryonic stem cells to develop new models for human genetic diseases”. In 1993, he obtained a PhD in immunology from ULP on the thesis : “Role of the invariant chain (Ii) in antigen presentation by MHC class II molecules”.

From 1993 to 1995, he was postdoc in Professor Azim Surani’s laboratory in Cambridge, working on genomic imprinting. He came back to France in 1995 and since then he is working in assisted reproduction biology. He initially developed a preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) centre at the University Hospital of Strasbourg. He is now the director of the Reproductive Biology ward at the University Hospital of Strasbourg.

His main research interest, beside PGD, concerns the genetics of infertility.

He is also leading a laboratory of fundamental research at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) Strasbourg, where his research concerns the ontogeny of primordial germ cell (PGC) and the pluripotency of their derivatives, the embryonic germ (EG) cells. He was appointed associate professor in 1998 and full professor of Biology of reproduction at ULP in 2004.

He is an elected member of the advisory committee of ESHRE, co-deputy of the special interest group Reproductive Genetics and one of the founding members of the ESHRE PGD Consortium as well as a longstanding member of the Consortium Steering Committee.

He is member of several commissions at the French Agency for Biomedecine. Stéphane Viville is author, co-author of more than 60 Pubmed articles, 29 articles in French and 15 books chapters.