Personal tools
You are here: Home Symposia 2009 Symposium 2009 Symposium Speakers Henri Salmon - Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique
Navigation
Log in


Forgot your login name or password?
New user?
 

Henri Salmon - Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique

Dr. Henri Salmon is a Research Director in the Institute of National Agronomic Research (INRA) in France. He earned his DVM from the National Veterinary School-Alfort in Paris and his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Paris. Prior to joining INRA in 1975, he served as a Research Assistant at College of Veterinary Medicine in Alfort. (1967-1975). Since 1984, he has served as Director of Research, INRA, laboratory of Animal Infectiology and Public Health, Nouzilly. In 1994 he served as Research fellow in Surgery, Transplantation Research Biology Center (Dir D. Sachs), Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston

, MA).

His research focuses on cellular and humoral factors for the homing of T and B lymphocytes into mucosae (including mammary gland) to enhance the protection of the neonate mainly in the porcine model and prebiotic and probiotics as a vectors to protect the mucosae. The team “Lymphocytes and Mucosal immunity” developed some aspects of tolerance induction via the thymic dendritic cell, the regulatory T cells, cell adhesion molecule into endothelial cells and some tests to reveal antigen induced endoretrovirus.

Document Actions