Marion Leboyer

Marion Leboyer (born 1957) is a French psychiatrist, university professor and hospital practitioner at the Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC). After completing her medical studies at Paris Descartes University, a master's degree and a PhD in science at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and being appointed intern at the Paris hospitals in 1981, she was head of clinic at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital from 1989 to 1994. From 2002 to 2007, she was head of the sectorized psychiatry department at Albert Chenevier Hospital and of the psychiatry department at Henri Mondor Hospital in 2002 before being appointed head of the psychiatry division there. Since 2019, she is the medical director of the university hospital department Innovation en santé Mentale, Psychiatrie et AddiCTologie du Grand-Paris-Sud (DMU IMPACT) within Centre hospitalier universitaire Henri-Mondor (AP-HP) and of the Fédération hospitalo-universitaire de médecine de précision en psychiatrie et addictologie (FHU ADAPT) since 2020. Her research focuses on bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism. She joined Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) in 1986, which allowed her to do her PhD thesis, defended in 1990, on the genetics of manic-depressive illness in the laboratory of Josué Feingold. In 2007, she became director of the Laboratoire de Psychiatrie Génétique, a laboratory renamed "Laboratoire de Neuro-Psychiatrie Translationnelle" in 2019, within Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale in Créteil. Since 2007, and in addition to her responsibilities as a university professor and hospital practitioner, Prof. Leboyer has directed the FondaMental foundation, a French foundation for scientific cooperation in mental health, created in July 2007 by the ministries in charge of research and health, following a call for tenders from the RTRS (Réseau Thématique de Recherche et de Soins), with the objective of innovation in the organization of care, support for research, training and information on mental illness.