CIRMF - Frédéric Ariey, new Head of the Medical Parasitology Unit

On secondment from the Pasteur Institute in Paris at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Frédéric Ariey became the new Head of the Medical Parasitology Unit at the International Centre for Medical Research in Franceville on 1 September 2010, replacing Dr. Fousseyni Toure Ndouo.

Born in 1965 in L'Hay Les Roses, France, Frédéric Ariey initially served as Deputy Director of the Biological Analysis Laboratory at the Hospital of Saint Laurent du Maroni (French Guiana) in 1993. He obtained his DEA Biodiversity at the University of Paris VI in 1995. A contract researcher at the Pasteur Institute, Frederick Ariey was posted to the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar in November 1998, where he became Coordinator of the Research Group on Malaria a year later. In 2005 he was appointed Head of the Molecular Epidemiology Unit of the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia and then in charge of Research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (Molecular Epidemiology Unit) in January 2010.
Doctor of Science, Specialty Logic of Life, (University of Paris VI) and Doctor of Medicine, Specialty Medical Biology, Paris XI, in 1999 he also earned a degree from MBL, Woods Hole, USA, in Bioinformatics applied to molecular evolution as well as a degree from the Pasteur Institute in Paris in General Immunology. He obtained his authorization to direct research, Paris VI in 2010.