Pierre RAY
Team leader PU-PH
Pierre Ray, full professor (PU-PH, EX1) at Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) and Grenoble University Hospital (CHUGA), is a reproductive biologist and geneticist recognized for two major contributions: the establishment of numerous single-cell genetic analysis protocols for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and his work on the genetic basis of male infertility. He is head of the M2 Genetics Genomics and Infertility (GGI), the medical unit of genetic infertility and molecular PGD (GI-DPI), and the research team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI).
After scientific training in Grenoble, he joined the pioneering PGD team at Hammersmith Hospital in London, where he developed the foundations of molecular diagnostics still used today and participated in the first PGD procedures for monogenic diseases. Upon returning to France, he contributed to the first French birth after PGD at Necker Hospital, and then to the creation of the fifth French PGD center at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital, which he coordinated for six years. In parallel, he initiated and led, together with Dr. Christophe Arnoult, the GETI team at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB). A pioneer in infertility genetics, he has identified and characterized more than fifty genes responsible for various severe anomalies of gametogenesis, including AURKC, DPY19L2 and DNAH1 (in men) or PATL2 (in women), establishing his team as an international reference, and transforming the diagnostic of human reproductive disorders.