PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nicolas TOURNIER
Married, 2 children
Nationality: French
Date of Birth: 19/10/1979
ResearcherID: N-9277-2017
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EDUCATION
2017 Habilitation (Privat-docent) - Paris Descartes University, France
2010 French/European Radiopharmacy course (DESC)- INSTN, France
2009 PhD – Paris Descartes University, INSERM U705, CNRS UMR8206, France - Supervisor: Pr J-M Scherrmann
2008 DES Hospital Pharmacy Residency
2008 PharmD - Paris Descartes University – Hospital Pharmacy degree - Best thesis award in hospital Pharmacy
2005 Master (DEA)- Paris Descartes University (INSERM U705, CNRS UMR8206)
2002 Hospital Pharmacy Resident (National competitive examination, rank 35/900)
1997 Pharmacy Course, Poitiers University (competitive examination, rank 2/163)
CURRENT POSITION
2020 - present Leader of the Pharmacology & NeuroImaging team at BioMaps
Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, CNRS
2012 – present Radiopharmacist / Pharmacologist
CEA/SHFJ, Orsay Hospital (GHNE), France
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2013-2020 Leader of the Clinical Applications team
In Vivo Molecular Imaging (IMIV, CEA, INSERM, CNRS, Paris-Sud/Paris Saclay University, CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France
2012-2013 Pharmacist / Pharmacologist, Leader of the Pharmacology group
CEA/SHFJ
2010-2011 Radiopharmacist
CEA/SHFJ
FELLOWSHIPS
2009-2010 Research fellow (Laureate of the CEA/AP-HP joint grant)
CEA/ SHFJ – Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP)
2005-2009 PhD student
Paris Descartes University, INSERM U705, CNRS UMR8206, France.
2003-2008 Hospital Pharmacy/Radiopharmacy Resident
Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP)
2004-2005 Master student (Laureate of the “research year” grant)
Paris Descartes University, INSERM U705, CNRS UMR8206, France
2003 Hospital pharmacy resident (FFI)
Poitiers University Hospital, Clinical pharmacokinetics department, France
1997-2003 Pharmacy student
Poitiers University, France
PUBLICATIONS
- International Peer-reviewed articles: 95
- H-index: 23
- SIGAPS: 1614
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CURRENT TEACHING POSITION
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Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics (Objectives: teaching the parameters that control the fate of drugs in the body with consequences for drug exposure, efficacy and safety)
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Master of Pharmacology, University of Grenoble, France (2h/year)
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Master of Pharmacology, University of Paris (4h/year)
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Master of Pharmacology, Université Paris-Saclay, France (4h/year)
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DU Personalized Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, France (2h/year)
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Training for pharmacy residents, Paris, France (8h/year)
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Paris Diderot University Course: Neuropharmacology for critical care medicine (2h/y)
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Paris Diderot University Course, Imaging for Toxicology (2h/y)
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DU Therapeutic Innovation in Oncology, Gustave Roussy Institute (2h/y)
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Master Oncopharmacology, Université Paris-Saclay (2h/y)
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Radiopharmacy/Imaging (Objectives: teaching how imaging probes are developed and how they can be useful to study biological mechanisms of importance for health and disease)
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French/European Radiopharmacy course – INSTN, France (2-4h/year)
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FUNDING & GRANTS
2023-2026. ANR ASTRID (B-BOP project, Coll, Université de Caen, IRBA)
2023-2024. I-D-Rev - HEALTHI (Collab U999, Univ Paris-Saclay)
2021 Sanofi iTech Award - 100 k€
2021 AFM-Téléthon (DECODYS project, Coll C. Vaillend, NeuroPSI) - 15 k€
2021-2024 French National Funding agency (ANR PRCE, ELUSUB project, Coll. Imescia, Inserm) – 191 k€
2021-2023 CEA / AP-HP joint grant for a PhD fellow (2 years for L. Breuil)
2019-2022 French National Funding agency (ANR PRCI, EPIFLUX project, Coll. Martin Bauer, Med Univ Vienna) – 537 k€
2016-2019 French National Funding agency (ANR JCJC, IsotoPK project) – 280 k€
2017 3 year PhD Grant funded by the CEA
2014-2016 Lidex PIM project (Multimodal Imaging for Pharmacology) – 240 k€
2015 CEA / AP-HP joint grant for a PhD fellow (2 years for D. Vodovar)
2012 CEA / AP-HP joint grant for a Post-doc fellow (1 year for S. Cisternino)
2009 CEA / AP-HP joint grant for my own Post-doc (2 years)
2005 AP-HP Research year laureate for my Master (1 year)
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES / AWARD
- Member of the French Academy of Pharmacy
- Member of the Administrative Comitee of the Society for the Study of blood-brain interfaces (SEISC)
- Member of the European (EANM) and American (SNMMI) Societies for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and the National Association for Radiopharmacy (SNRPH)
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- 2021 Sanofi iTech Award
- 2010 Alavi-Mandell Award (young investigator award) from the SNMMI
- 2009 Best thesis award (Hospital Pharmacy section) - Paris Descartes University
- 2006 2nd Medical Press Award (National French Medical Press association)
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
- Reviewer for several journals including Neuroimage, Nucl Med Biol, Anesthesiology, Eur J Neurosci, Plos One, Brain Imaging Behav, Current Neuropharmacol, Pharm Res, Theranostics, Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, Eur J Pharm Sci, Fundam Clin Pharmacol, Mol Imaging Biol, Molecules, Ann Neurol, Mol Pharmaceutics, AAPS J, etc...
- Referee for funding agencies and foundations including the French (ANR) and Austrian (FWF) Research funding Agency, French Epilepsy Research Foundation (FFRE), Dutch Cancer Society (KWF)
- Referee for 6 PhD defenses (Paris-Cité University, France, University of Vienna, Austria, University of Lyon, University of Toulouse), 2 Habilitations (Paris Cité University)​
