CURRICULUM VITÆ – Vincent GEENEN ADDRESS Business University of Liege GIGA Institute GIGA-I3 Center of Neuroimmunoendocrinology CHU-B34 B-4000 Liege - Sart Tilman Belgium Tel.: +32 4 366 25 50 Mobile: +32 477 46 90 95 E-mail:
[email protected] Home Place des Déportés 5 B-4000 Liege Belgium Tel.: +32 4 221 32 88 BIRTH Verviers, Belgium 6th February 1958 CITIZENSHIP Belgian CIVIL STATUS Three sons (Jerome 1983, Pierre-François 1987, Roman 2013) Married: Anne Soubeyran (born in Paris on 24th November 1968) LANGUAGES French, English, and Dutch (not fluently) EDUCATION 1975 High-school in Saint-Servais College, Liege 1982 M.D., Summa cum laude University of Liege, Faculty of Medicine 1987 Ph.D., Summa cum laude University of Liege, Faculty of Medicine Thesis: « Oxytocin: from Neurohormone to Cybernin » (29.01.1987) 1996 Professorial thesis, Unanimously University of Liege Thesis: « Cryptocrine Signaling in the Thymus Network and the Central Self-Tolerance of Neuroendocrine Principles » Professoral lecture: « Type 1 Diabetes » (28.05.1996) 1 CERTIFICATES HELD 1989 Internal Medicine 1995 Endocrinology, Diabetology & Metabolism Belgian Board of Endocrinology 2001 Endocrinology, Diabetology & Metabolism European Board of Endocrinology of the UEMS (Union européenne des médecins spécialistes) CURRENT POSITION 1995 to date Clinical Head in Endocrinology, Liege University Hospital 2001 to date Research Director at National Fund of Scientific Research (NFSR, Belgium) 2001 to date Professor, University of Liege, Faculty of Sciences Introduction to Embryology