Xavier Gidrol

Xavier Gidrol earned is Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from Aix-Marseille University in 1984. He performed post-doctoral research at Harvard School of Public Health and at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (NUS) in Singapore, where he specialized in transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

He obtained a tenured position at INRA France, and then served as Associate Director of R&D at Xenometrix Inc. in Boulder, Colorado where he became interested in global approaches and genomics. He then joined the newly-created Functional Genomics Laboratory at France’s Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA) in Paris and managed it until recently. This laboratory used large-scale functional genomics tools—DNA microarrays, ChIP- chip, cell microarrays—to infer genetic networks controlling cell proliferation and differentiation. In 2009 he took the helm of a new laboratory, « Biochip & Functional Genomics » dedicated to the use of microsystems for cell biology, at the CEA in Grenoble.