Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich PhD

Dr. Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich, Ph.D. is a Research Director Emeritus at the National Institute of Agronomic Research - INRAE. He graduated in organic chemistry and biochemistry in 1967 at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry at the University Paris VII, France. He was a research associate of Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize winner, in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, California. He founded and directed Microbial Genetics Research Unit and the Microbiology Department at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). He also founded a start-up company Enterome, developing microbiome-based biomarkers.

His research interests are in Human Microbiome. His main focus is the gut microbiome, the most abundant and complex. Ehrlich’s team has developed an approach known as ‘quantitative metagenomics, which is based on high throughput sequencing of total DNA extracted from stools and powerful bioinformatics.