Prof. Jean-Louis Guéant

Jean-Louis Guéant, MD, PhD, DSc, is a professor of biochemistry-molecular biology, head of the department of biochemistry-molecular biology and nutrition of the University Hospital of Nancy and Director of UMR-S Inserm 1256 “Nutrition-Genetics-Environmental Exposure” at the University of Lorraine. In France, he is the president of the section of medical biochemistry-molecular biology, physiology, cell biology and nutrition of the National Committee of Universities, president of the National Commission of Medical Biology, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has organized four international congresses since 2010 and is regularly invited to international conferences as a speaker and session chair. He is a member of the editorial board of Hum Genet and Nutrients. His scientific career includes 425 articles in Pub Med, with publications in N Engl J Med, Nature Comm, The Lancet, PNAS, Ann Intern Med, Gastroenterology, Gut, J Hepatology, Nucleic acid Research, J Allergy Clin Immunol, Blood, etc. His research focuses on key mechanisms of digestive transport and metabolism of vitamin B12 and folate, the influence of one-carbon metabolism on the epigenome, cellular stress, energy metabolism, and fetal programming in rare and complex metabolic diseases and a new type of B12 rare metabolic disease produced by an epimutation in the MMACHC gene promoter named “Epi-cblC.” He has also analyzed genetic predictors of allergic drug reactions.