New Challenges in Physiogenomics

By Dr Nora Benhabilès, Director of Bioinformatics, and Professor Gérard Marguerie, Chief Scientific Officer, at CliniGenetics Dr Nora Benhabilès received her PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). She worked in several leading European bioinformatics centres before joining CliniGenetics.
Dr Benhabilès is a recognised expert in molecular modelling, structural genomics and statistical methods, and has worked on protein folding, protein sequence analysis, protein structure prediction and molecular dynamics on DNA. In particular, she is active in setting up clustering methods and neural networks applied to post-genomics data. She is an adjunct Professor at the University of Paris teaching molecular modelling, bioinformatics and programming.

Professor Gérard Marguerie holds a PhD in Biophysics and Cell Biology. He is a former Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He then spent three years at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego and was appointed as Director of an INSERM unit in Haematology on returning to France.

Professor Marguerie then took a CEA (Atomic Energy Agency) appointment as Director of the Department of Structural and Molecular Biology at the Nuclear Centre of Research in Grenoble. He was also appointed as the Co-Director of the National Programme on Structural Biology. Professor Marguerie was a substitute Director of the Life Sciences Division of the Atomic Energy Agency, Head of a Functional Genomic Research Unit, and Professor at Evry University (Paris) in cellular biology.