Laurence Bresson-Bépoldin received her PhD in Neurosciences and Pharmacology from the University of Bordeaux in 1994. She was then appointed as a post-doc in Werner Schlegel’s lab at the University of Geneva.

In 1997 she obtained a CNRS research position in Bernard Dufy’s lab. She joined François Ichas’s team in Bordeaux in 2002, before moving to the Bergonié Cancer Institute in 2006.