Nicole Guiso PhD

Nicole Guiso is the Head of the Research Unit, Molecular Prevention and Therapy of Human Diseases, and Director of the 'National Whooping cough and other Bordetelloses Reference Centre' and of the 'Toxinogenic Corynebacteria Reference Centre' at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. She joined Institut Pasteur in 1972 as a voluntary trainee, having obtained a Master's Degree in biochemistry. In 1980, Nicole Guiso was awarded a PhD for her thesis on the evolution of the lactose genes in Enterobacteriaceae.

Nicole Guiso left the Pasteur Institute to study Archaebacteria as Visiting Lecturer at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colorado, USA. She returned to the Institute in 1988, resuming the post of Research Lecturer, undertaking studies on the factors implicated in Bordetella species pathogenicity.