Joël Doré

Joël Doré has been working on microbiota for 38 years. He is an internationally recognized leader in human microbiota.

Joël Doré, Graduated of Agro Rennes, with a Master of Advanced Studies in Applied Animal Physiology. He joined INRA in Clermont-Ferrand in 1983. Then he received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1988, with a thesis on the rumen microbiota, completed while he was contractual scientific associate at INRA. His research on human microbiota started when he joined Inrae Center at Jouy-en-Josas, in 1990. From 2010 until 2014, he was vice-head of MICALIS, one of the largest units of INRA (now INRAE: French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food and the Environment).

He is now Scientific Director of MetaGenoPolis, an INRAE unit created in 2012 and funded by the French program “Investissements d’Avenir”. Its expertise in the analysis of the gut microbiome and its implications in health and nutrition has been widely recognized in the international scientific community. Joël Doré aims to contribute to a better understanding of the human-microbes symbiosis to support therapeutic choices, in the medical area as well as science-based recommendations in health nutrition.