Xavier ITURRIOZ
is an INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) researcher that obtained is PhD from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in 2001.
He has been working for many years on metallopeptidases and apelin receptor in the laboratory of Catherine Llorens Cortes at the Collège de France.
He did his post-doc (2001-2004) at the Cancer Research UK (London Research institute) in the laboratory of Peter Parker where he focused his work on the identification of ubiquitin ligases responsible of protein kinases C degradation.
He recently moved to the laboratory of “Toxins, receptors and ionic channels” at the SIMoS, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) (directed by Denis Servent) to continue his work on the relationship between the apelin receptor and the vasopressin receptor type 2 and the identification of toxins targeting the apelin receptor as therapeutic tools.
Since 2013, he has been in the directory committee and the young scientist committee of the GDR-3545.