Philippe Sansonetti, MD, trained in infectious diseases in Paris and in bacterial genetics at Institut Pasteur, Paris, then at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research as a post-doctoral scientist. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Institut Pasteur and at the Collège de France where he has been lecturing for 12 years at the interface between basic microbiology and emerging infectious diseases.
Professor Sansonetti pioneered the field of Cellular Microbiology by deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Shigella pathogenesis. He more recently applied similar approaches to decipher the symbiotic mechanisms established between the host and his gut microbiota. His work on Shigella vaccine development and on pediatric malnutrition in relation with gut dysbiosis got him close to global health issues in low-income countries, particularly in Africa.
Philippe Sansonetti received several prestigious awards including the “Louis Jeantet Prize of Medicine” and the “Grand Prix de l’INSERM. He is a member of the French “Académie des sciences”, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and the German Academy of Sciences Leopldina.

Seminar topic: Gut dysbiosis and colorectal cancer: from « descriptomics » to “experimentomics »

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