Lluis Quintana-Murci appointed as a Professor at the Collège de France

Lluis Quintana-Murci, Head of the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, has recently been appointed as a Professor at the Collège de France for the "Human Genomics and Evolution" Chair. This appointment will take effect on October 1, 2019.

Lluis Quintana-Murci, a Professor at the Institut Pasteur and graduate of the Universities of Barcelona, Pavia (where he completed a PhD in Genetics) and Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris (where he was awarded his HDR – accreditation to supervise research), is a Research Director at the CNRS and has been Head of the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit (CNRS UMR2000) at the Institut Pasteur since 2007. This renowned scientist, who has more than 200 publications to his name, has established a solid reputation at national and international level in human population genetics, evolution and, more recently, systems immunology. His research has already been recognized with several scientific awards, including the prestigious CNRS Silver Medal and the "Jean Hamburger" Grand Prix for medicine and medical research awarded by the City of Paris. He is also an ERC grant winner and a member of EMBO and the Academia Europaea.

Lluis Quintana-Murci served as a member of the Institut Pasteur's Scientific Council from 2011 to 2015 and as a member of the CNRS National Committee from 2010 to 2016. He has been closely involved in scientific governance at the Institut Pasteur through his ongoing participation in several evaluation and advisory bodies. He was Scientific Director of the Institut Pasteur from 2016 to 2018.

Since 2011, he has coordinated the "Milieu Intérieur" LabEx, whose aim is to pinpoint the genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors that contribute to the heterogeneity of immune responses in humans, so as to determine the parameters of a healthy immune system and its natural variability.