Michel Sauvain is a pharmacist, PhD from the University of Paris-Saclay, emeritus director of research at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), member of PharmaDev laboratory associating IRD with the University of Toulouse. Between 2010 and 2019, he was the director of the Amazonian Andean International Laboratory of Chemistry of Life, which associates IRD, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and laboratories in Colombia, Bolivia and France. For 40 years, he has been conducting research on natural substances isolated from Amazonian biodiversity (plants and insects), active against infectious agents (Helicobacter, Salmonella, Staphyloccocus, Aeromonas) and parasites (Leishmania, Plasmodium). He is the author of 116 national and international publications. Number of papers found in web of science: 93; Sum of Times Cited without self-citations: 2585; Average Citations per Item: 29.11; h-index: 33