Remi Charrel MD, PhD

Remi N. Charrel is a specialist in vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases, as well as respiratory viral infections. He was trained at Aix Marseille Medical School and went for 2 years for a post-doctoral fellowship in the WHO Reference Centre for Tropical Diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas. He is the author of >300 peer-reviewed articles, and 24 book chapters, and was the coordinator or PI for 24 projects funded by NIH, the European Commission, the French Research Agency, and Industry companies.

For 10 years, he was in charge of Molecular Diagnostics in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory serving all Public Hospitals in Marseille. He has spent 12 months as visiting professor at the Emerging Pathogens Institute, at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He has now been appointed Head of the Nosocomial Infection Control Committee. He is the deputy director of the "Unite des Virus Emergents" (Unit of Emerging Viruses) at Aix Marseille University where he supervises Preparedness and Response activities against Emerging Viruses.