Christian Demeure

Christian Demeure is an immunologist, who first studied allergies caused by certain parasitic infections, during his doctorate at the University of Marseille-Luminy. He then became interested in the cellular mechanisms of the development of the allergic disease at the University of Montreal (Canada) where he was associated researcher. Back in France, he is now a group leader in the Yersinia Research Unit at Institut Pasteur, which studies the biology of pathogenic Yersinia bacteria, the most famous member of which is Yersinia pestis, the agent of the plague. Christian Demeure is the scientific manager of the development of a new vaccine against the plague. He also studies the origin of the virulence of pathogenic Yersiniae, the influence of genetics on the mammalian host resistance mechanisms to plague and collaborates in the development of diagnostic tools for this disease.