Prof. Philippe Sansonetti The Pasteur Institute and INSERM, France

Philippe Sansonetti is MD, Professor at the College de France where he holds the Chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Professor at Institut Pasteur where he is Head of the Unit of Microbial Molecular Pathogenesis, and Unit 786 of the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche... read moreMedicale. He is currently a Foreign Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His interest is in the mechanisms of rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of mucosal barriers by bacterial pathogens, and in the development of vaccines against enteric infections.