Florent Ginhoux holds a degree in biochemistry from the Pierre-et-Marie-CurieUniversity(UPMC), Paris-VI.He obtained a master's degree in immunology from the Institut Pasteur in 2000 and his doctorate in 2004 from UPMC, Paris-VI. As a postdoctoral fellow, he joined Miriam Merad's laboratory at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) in New York, where he studied the ontogeny and homeostasis of myeloid cells, with a particular focus on Langerhans cells and microglia. In 2008, he became Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic and Cellular Medicine at MSSM and a member of theMSSM Institute of Immunology. He joined the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR in May 2009 as a junior principal investigator and then became senior principal investigator in 2014. He also joined the EMBO Young Investigator Program (YIP) in 2013.
Florent Ginhoux has beena " highly cited "researcher on the Web of Science since 2016. He has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology (Jiao Tong University) since 2015 and an Associate Assistant Professor at the Institute of Translational Immunology, SingHealth and Duke NUS in Singapore since 2016. He is currently Laboratory Director at Institut Gustave-Roussy, where he focuses on pediatric cancers and the role of myeloid cells in tumor progression. He became a member of EMBO in 2022.
Florent Ginhoux is the winner of the Prix Lacassagne 2023.