(University of Burgundy-Franche Comte, INSERM UMR1231)
The GAD research team was created as an emerging team of the University of Burgundy in January 2011. It gained the INSERM label on the 1st January 2017 within UMR 1231.
The GAD team is developing ambitious research projects around rare genetic diseases with development anomalies and is training a large number of students. Since the team adopted high-throughput sequencing early and quickly, it has conducted numerous projects to identify genes responsible for rare diseases, involving international cohorts of finely phenotyped patients and in the context of a translational research program directly related to national AnDDI-rares healthcare network. In parallel, the GAD team is also developing expertise in pathophysiological studies in certain of its preferred themes.
The GAD team brings together more than forty teacher-researchers and researchers of the CHU and University of Burgundy Franche-Comte. To achieve this dimension, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Rivière, an expert in next generation sequencing, worked in the team from September 2012 to September 2015, before returning to Quebec (Mc Gill University).
Since its creation in January 2011, it has conducted more than 40 research projects (including 24 national projects), published more than 78 articles on its work related to high-throughput pangenomic sequencing in international journals and presented them orally in 19 national or international congresses. It has also trained 4 post-doctoral fellows, 5 doctoral fellows, and 20 other students.
