Guillaume Duménil - Curriculum Vitae#
Scientific project coordination and leadership
- Deputy director of the Cell Biology and Infection department at the Institut Pasteur.
- Co-direction of the Qbio program at Institut Pasteur that promotes approaches at the interface between biology and physics.
- Head of the INSERM unit Pathogenesis of Vascular Infections
Therapeutic application of scientific results
- Patent: Methods for the screening of substances that may be useful in the prevention and treatment of infections by Neisseria bacterial species. # PCT/FR2011/050036. Date of deposit: January 10, 2011
- Screening of small molecules to block the adhesion to endothelial cells, Collaboration with Sanofi-Aventis, site in Toulouse (ANR RPIB)
- Evaluation of the efficiency of a vaccine against meningococus group B in an animal model. Collaboration with Novartis
- Consulting for GSK as an expert on our scientific committee on the medico-economic modeling of vaccination against invasive Meningococcal infections
Broad public scientific communication
- The Duménil lab was selected to produce a CellDance video for the ASCB-EMBO 2017 conference that took place in Philadelphia in December. A 5-minute video was generated to describe the work of the laboratory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-kolng-Ys
- Conference by Guillaume Duménil on the Vascular Colonization by N. meningitidis https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=tp9QIHbPP3Y
- Participation in the course "Biology for non biologists" taking place twice a year at the Institut Pasteur