Benoît Chassaing#
| Membership Number: | 7245 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/microbiome-host-interactions/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4285-769X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Research Director & Group leader, “Host-Microbiome Interaction” (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
- 2021 - present Adjunct Professor & Interface Contract, Instituts Hospitalo-Universitaires (IHU INFINY) on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (CHRU Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France)
- 2019,08 - 2019,10 Paternity leave, 8 weeks
- 2019 - 2024 Research Director & Group leader, “Microbiota in Chronic Inflammatory diseases” (Institut Cochin, Paris, France)
- 2019 - 2021 Research fellow at INSERM, tenured position (CRCN, Paris, France)
- 2015 - 2019 Assistant Professor, Institute for Biomedical Sciences / Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
- 2015,03 - 2015,06 Paternity leave, 6 weeks
- 2012 - 2015 Post-Doctoral fellow, «Processed foods, microbiota, and IBD». Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. Advisor: Pr. A. Gewirtz
Fields of Scholarship
- Host-microbiota interactions
- Gut microbiota and chronic inflammatory diseases
- Microbiota-targeted approaches for personalized medicine
- Dietary emulsifiers and their impact on gut health
- Mechanistic insights into microbiota-mediated inflammation
- Immunological responses to bacterial components
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2030 ERC Consolidator Grant – InterBiome
- 2024 Prix de la Mutualité Fonction Publique (MPF) des donateurs
- 2019 - 2024 ERC Starting Grant - Invaders
- 2017 Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, Award of the IBD Research.
- 2014 Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, Shanthi V. Sitaraman, young investigation award
