France
Hervé Blottière, PhD, is Director of Research at INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. After 18 years spent at Micalis Institute in Paris suburban area (Jouy-en Josas) as head of a research team, he is now the Director of the Nantes Université/INRAE Joint Research Unit 1280 PhAN “Pathophysiology of Nutritional Adaptations” at the University Hospital of Nantes and deputy Scientific Director at MetaGenoPolis, the Excellence Center for microbiome analysis (Jouy en Josas). Hervé is also co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Novobiome, a start-up company located in Bordeaux, France. He is partner of the Frenc Gut project and one of the coordinators of the French Gut Kids. He obtained a PhD in Tumor Immunology from the University of Nantes in 1989, and spent 2 years at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. His scientific goal is to better understand the role of the gut microbiota in human health. He has developed a novel high-throughput functional metagenomic approach to decipher the molecular mechanisms of microbiota-host interactions and developed work on Adlercreutzia equolifaciens and A. rubneri as LBP. He is co-author of more than 190 articles and reviews and of several patents.
