Born April 9 1949, Paris (75).
Education and professional career
- 1978 : DEA (post-graduate diploma) in biochemistry/microbiology, Université Denis-Diderot Paris-VII
- 1979 : Doctor of Medicine thesis at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, Paris-VI
- 1979 : CES in bacteriology and virology
- 1973 : Internship at Paris hospitals
- 1974-1979 : Internal medicine/infectious diseases
- 1981-1983 Chef de clinique-assistant des hôpitaux de Paris : infectious diseases, Institut Pasteur hospital
- 1983-1987 : Research fellow at Institut Pasteur : infectious diseases
- 1985-1990 : Consultation physician, Institut Pasteur hospital
- 1987 : Head of laboratory at Institut Pasteur
- 1989 : Creation and management of the Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit, part of Inserm Unit 199
- 1992 : Creation and management of INSERM unit 389, now Inserm 786
- 1992 : Clinical Research Development Delegate, Institut Pasteur Hospital
- 1994 : Professor at Institut Pasteur
- 1995-1996 : Wellcome Burroughs Visiting Professorship in the Microbiological Sciences
- 1995-1996 : MacLaughlin Visiting Professorship
- 1997 : Edwin H. Beachey Visiting Professorship at the University of Tennessee, Memphis
- 1998 : Marvin A. Brennecke Visiting Professor at Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri
- 2000 : Professeur de classe exceptionnelle à l'Institut Pasteur
- 2000 : Visiting Professor of Paediatrics at Harvard Medical School
- 2000 : Visiting Scientist at G.I. Cell Biology Laboratory (M.R. Neutra)
- 2000 : Children's Hospital, Boston Massachussetts
- 2001 : Pasteur-Weizmann Scientific Council visiting speaker
- 2003 : Co-organizer of the Gordon Research Conference Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Adhesion, Rhode Island
- 2003 : Division B Annual Honorary Lecture, American Society for Microbiology Stanier Public Health Honorary Lecture, Montreal, Canada
- 2007-2020 : Professor at the Collège de France, Microbiology and infectious diseases