Since November 15, 2017 Alain Hovnanian, Professor of Medical Genetics and Director of an INSERM department at the Necker Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, France, has become Visiting Professor of Medical Genetics at Yerevan State Medical University.
Professor Hovnanian qualified in Medicine in Paris, and then trained in Dermatology and in Genetics. From 1994 to 2000, he has headed a research group on inherited skin diseases at Oxford University. In 2000, he moved to Toulouse where he became full professor and headed an INSERM department (U563) on «Functional Genetics of Epithelial diseases».
Alain Hovnanian’s research group has an international reputation in the field of medical genetics and among the patients. Professor Hovnanian is an author of numerous scientific articles which were published in the world’s most famous journals