Jean-marie Bard PhD

Jean-Marie is a professor of biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Head of the Biopathology Department at the Institute for Cancer Research in Western France (ICO) in Nantes. He came to Nantes in 1995 after nine years at the Institut Pasteur in Lille as a Research Assistant and 16 months as a post-doctoral student at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City in the US. His research focuses on biochemistry and lipoprotein metabolism, as well as clinical research on nutrition in a variety of clinical situations. His research group is part of the Research Center in Human Nutrition (CRNH) for Western France. The major areas of research currently underway by his team involve the interaction between lipids and other biomolecules with the liver X receptor (LXR), the consequences of this interaction on cholesterol metabolism and cell proliferation, and identifying biomarkers regarding the influence of diet on breast cancer. He has co-authored more than 150 international publications. Jean-Marie is a member of a number of academic societies: SFN (Société Française de Nutrition), ASN (American Society of Nutrition), NSFA (Nouvelle Société Française d’Athérosclérose), NACRe (Réseau Nutrition, Alimentation et Cancer) and Institut Danone. He is an expert with the French Department of Research (MENRT) and a scientific expert for Biofortis, a company that he co-founded in 2002 (integrated into the Mérieux NutriSciences group in 2009).