Zine-Eddine KHERRAF
MCU-PH
Dr. Zine-Eddine KHERRAF is a medical biologist and geneticist who graduated from Grenoble Alpes University. After completing his medical residency in 2016, he joined the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB) through an INSERM hospital researcher fellowship to pursue a PhD on the genetics of male infertility. His doctoral work within the GETI team (Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility) led to the identification and characterization of several monogenic causes responsible for severe spermatogenesis defects, such as non-obstructive azoospermia and monomorphic teratozoospermia.
In 2018, Dr. Kherraf was awarded the INSERM–Bettencourt Fellowship Program for a four-year period, allowing him to continue his research within the GETI team before being appointed Associate Professor – Hospital Practitioner (MCU-PH) in 2022 at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital (CHUGA).
Dr. Kherraf teaches molecular genetics and reproductive biology at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. Alongside his academic duties, he practices as a hospital biologist at the Institute of Biology and Pathology (CHUGA), where he is responsible for genetic diagnostics of infertility and contributes to the development of high-throughput sequencing diagnostic workflows.
He is also affiliated with the AURAGEN multi-site medical biology laboratory, one of the two national platforms selected as part of the France Genomic Medicine Plan 2025 (PFMG2025). Within this framework, Dr. Kherraf contributes to the expert-level interpretation of genomic analyses, particularly in the context of rare and severe infertility cases.