Abdelmadjid Hihi

CEA-Leti

Adjoint à la Cheffe du Département des Technologies pour l’Innovation en Santé

Description

Dr. Abdelmadjid Hihi is deputy to the Head of the Department of Technologies for Innovation in Health at CEA-Leti, in charge of clinical innovation. As a member of Leti's Internal Scientific Council, he is responsible for coordinating public-private partnerships with academic and industrial collaborators in France and abroad, focusing in particular on the development of non-drug therapeutic solutions to treat neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the development of neurotechnologies to benefit people with severe motor disabilities or who have suffered a stroke. Before joining Leti, Madjid worked at Génome Québec as head of scientific programmes and at Chronogen Inc (Montreal, Quebec) as R&D Group Leader. He previously conducted post-doctoral research at McGill University's Biology Department on the genetics of ageing. Madjid holds a PhD in biological sciences from the University of Lausanne.