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Christian Hamel

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Christian Hamel (4 October 1955- 15 August 2017) was a French Professor at the Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Hôpital Saint Eloi (INM) research unit INSERM 583 of the University. This eminent researcher studied transduction, integration and disorders of sensory and motor systems with the ultimate goal of finding treatments for degeneration of the retina and optic nerve[1].

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Christian Hamel discovered and described in 1993 the RPE65 protein[2][3].Retinal pigment epithelium-specific 65 kDa protein is an enzyme in the vertebral visual pigment[4]. The next year he mapped the RPE65 gene to human chromosome 1 (mouse chromosome 3) and refined it to 1p31 by fluorescence in situhybridization[5]. His research interests were to find the causes of inherited diseases of the retina and optic nerve[6]

1987 MD, physician specialist in Ophtalmology, Paris XI University

1987 - 1991 Post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Health (USA) laboratory of ocular immunopathology (R. Nussenblatt), and of Retinal Molecular Biology (G. Chader).

1992 - 2002 Senior scientist INSERM Unit 254 (Neurobiology of Audition) director R. Pujol

1994 PhD in Neurosciences, University Montpellier 1

1996 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), University Montpellier 1

2000 Directeur de Recherches

2003 Director of INSERM Unit 583 (Pathophysiology and therapy of sensory motor defects)

2004 Director of the Center of Reference for Rare Diseases (Diagnosis and Care of Hereditary Sensory Defects) University Hospital, Montpellier

2008 Medicine Professor, Montpellier.

  1. Monperrus Clémentine, « A Montpellier, les 10 chercheurs les plus en pointe », L'Express,‎ (lire en ligne)
  2. (en) Hamel C.P. et al., « A developmentally regulated microsomal protein specific for the pigment epithelium of the vertebrate retina. », Journal of neuroscience research,‎ 1993; 34 (4), p. 414-425 (PubMed: 8474143)
  3. (en) Hamel C.P. et al., « Molecular cloning and expression of RPE65, a novel retinal pigment epithelium-specific microsomal protein that is posttranscriptionally regulated in vitro. », J Biol Chem 268 (21),‎ , p. 15751-15757 (PubMed: 8340400)
  4. (en) Xue Cai et al., « RPE65: Role in the visual cycle, human retinal disease, and gene therapy. », Ophthalmic Genet.,‎ 2009; 30 (2), p. 57-65 (lire en ligne)
  5. (en) Hamel C.P. et al., « The gene for the retinal pigment epithelium-specific protein RPE65 is localized to human 1p31 and mouse 3. », Genomics 20 (3),‎ , p. 509-512 (PubMed: 8034329)
  6. (en) « European Vision Institute EEIG, Belgium: CV of researcher » (consulté le )