Jean-michel Claverie MSc, PhD

Jean-Michel Claverie is an Emeritus full Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the School of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University in the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, a unit of the French National Research Center (CNRS) that he founded in 1995. Jean-Michel Claverie got his initial training both in biochemistry, computer science, and theoretical particle physics at the University of Paris and combined his multidisciplinary education into a Doctorate (Dr. Sc.) on the subject of mathematical modeling of biological systems in 1977. He then successively hold research positions at the Jacques Monod Institute (CNRS) in Paris, then at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, before creating 1982 one of the first pre-Internet era computational biology laboratories at the Pasteur Institute (Paris) where he remained until 1990. He then returned to the USA, to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, NLM-NIH, Bethesda) where he participated in the exciting beginning of the genomic era, as an NIH senior Fogarty scientist, until 1995. Before returning to France, he spent one year as director of bioinformatics at Incyte pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto).