Bruno Giros

Bruno Giros
Marc Caron (left) and Bruno Giros (right)
Nationality	French
Occupation	Neuroscientist
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie-Curie
Academic work
Institutions	McGill University

Bruno Giros is a French neuroscientist specializing in neurotransmitter systems and their role in psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. He is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Neurobiology and Psychiatry Laboratory at McGill University.

Biography

Giros completed his PhD at University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie-Curie in 1987, conducting research in J.-C. Schwartz’s Laboratory at INSERM U-109. He then pursued postdoctoral training at Genentech, Inc. in San Francisco (1987) and later at Duke University in the laboratory of MG Caron and RJ Lefkowitz (1991-1994).

Giros has held multiple prestigious research and academic positions. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral researcher at HHMI - Duke University, before becoming the director of the Neurobiology and Psychiatry Group at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1994-1998). He then directed the INSERM U-513 "Neurobiology and Psychiatry" Laboratory at Université Pierre et Marie Curie from 1999 to 2008. In 2007, he joined the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Canada. Since 2008, he has been a professor of psychiatry and director of the Neurobiology and Psychiatry Laboratory at McGill University. He also served as the director of the Neurobiology and Psychiatry Group at Université Sorbonne (2009-2013), and has been a visiting professor and director of the Neurobiology and Psychiatry Group at Université de Paris, from 2018 to 2025.

Honors and awards

• 1996: CNRS Silver Medal

• 2008: Canada Research Chair, "Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders"

• 2022: Heinz Lehmann Award, Canadian College of Neuropsycho Pharmacology (CCNP)