Joël Doré

Research Director at INRA, Joël is Scientific Director of MetaGenoPolis, a Unit of the Micalis Institute “Food and Gut Microbiology for Human Health” and member of the Scientific Coucil of Paris-Sud University Medical School. Joel joined INRA in 1983 and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1988. He trained as gut microbial ecologist and developed expertise in intestinal metagenomics towards diagnostic and prognostic applications as well as a window into microbe-host crosstalk. He aims to contribute to a better understanding of the intestinal ecosystem in order to support therapeutic choices in the medical area, as well as science-based recommendations in health nutrition. Joël Doré chairs the gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com scientific web-platform and is scientific advisor to the Healthtech startup MaaT Pharma.