Jean-Pierre Gorvel has a PhD and is Director of Research (DRCE2) at CNRS, France, He is currently leading projects in the field of infectious diseases. He is a Doctor of Science at the University of Mediterranean, Marseille (1983). He manages interdisciplinary approaches associating cell biology of infections, genomics, structure biology, and transcriptomics to investigate immune responses of patients and animals. He is involved in several projects focused on the study of brucellosis, salmonellosis, tuberculosis, and whooping-cough. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and has a long history as a manager of Centers of Excellence at the Foundation of Infectiology in Lyon and the Centre of Immunology in Marseille. In addition, he is chairman of Life Sciences at the European Research Council for ERCsynergy. Nowadays, his research focuses on vaccine and new adjuvant design and in the development of new diagnostic tools devoted to translational research in the field of infectious diseases.