 He was successively a professor at the University of Paris VI (1968–73), deputy director of the Chair of Cell Physiology at the Collège de France (1973–82) before being, in Montpellier, Director of Research at the CNRS (1982-2001) then Professor at the University of Montpellier (2001-2014).In Montpellier, he founded the CNRS-INSERM Institute of Pharmacology-Endocrinology (1982), of which he was Director from 1990 to 2005 and then the Institute of Functional Genomics.In 2013, he became Director of the Biology and Health Department of Montpellier.