Dominique Heymann

I studied cell biology, biochemistry and immunology in INSERM (French NIH) unit 211 at the University of Nantes (France) and defended my Ph.D. in 1995. I successively obtained a technician and an engineer position at the University Hospital of Nantes before to be appointed Associate-Professor in 2001 at the Department of Histology and Embryology. In 2009, I was awarded a personal Chair of Histology and Embryology. At the Nantes Hospital, I was the quality control manager of the Tissue bank and Gene and Cellular Therapy Unit and in 2014 became the Head of the Tissue Bank (tissue preparation and delivery for grafts). At the Faculty of Medicine of Nantes, I led (until the end of 2016) a laboratory research group (INSERM UMR 957) studying the pathogenesis of primary bone tumours. I was member of the national scientific advisory board of INSERM (2008-2012) and acted as Co-chairman of INSERM scientific committee n°5 (“Physiology and pathophysiology of endocrine, bone, skin and gastrointestinal tissues”) (2012-2016). From September 2015 to August 2017, I have been on detachment for two years at the University of Sheffield where I was appointed full Professor of Bone Oncology. Since September 2017, I'm Professor of Histology and Embryology at the University of Nantes and the ICO Cancer Centre (Integrated Cancer Center, head of the Biological Resources Center, head of the laboratory "Tumour Heterogeneity and Precision Medicine"). Since January 2022, I joined the CNRS Unit UMR6286 (US2B, Unit in Biological and Biotechnological Sciences). I have authored more than 290 publications in peer-reviewed journals mainly in the field of bone cancer and osteoclast differentiation; more than 330 abstracts, 28 book chapters and in 2021, I edited the 3rd Edition book entitled “Bone Cancer. Bone Sarcomas and Bone Metastases: from Bench to Bedside" (Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press). My editorial activities were and are: -2004/2016 Associate Editor of Life Sciences (Elsevier), - 2012/... Academic editor of PLoS ONE, - 2008/2015 Editor-In-Chief, The Open Bone Journal (Bentham), Member of the Editorial Board of: - 2008/... Current Medicine Chemistry, (Bentham) European Journal of Pharmacology (Elsevier), - 2012/... Journal of Bone Oncology (Elsevier, Co-Editor-in-Chief), Letters in Drug Design & Discovery (Bentham), - 2014/2016 BoneKEy Reports (Nature group), - 2016/... Journal of Sarcoma Research (SMGroup), - 2018/... Current Pharmaceutical Design (Bentham) - 2019/… International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), Cancers (MDPI) - 2020/... Cancer Drug Resistance