François Blachier

François Blachier worked as Research Director at the National Institute for Agriculture, Alimentation and Environment (INRAe). He was deputy director of the Nutrition Physiology and Alimentary Behavior laboratory, which is one of the research units belonging to the Université Paris-Saclay/AgroParisTech/INRAe consortium. After graduating in biochemistry, he worked at McGill University in Montréal (Canada), at Brussels Free University (Belgium), and at the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics in Cambridge (UK). He received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology from Université Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France). His main research interest is related to the metabolism and physiological functions of amino acids in pancreatic beta cells, parotid cells, and intestinal epithelial cells. More recently, his team has worked on the metabolic activity of the intestinal microbiota towards amino acids and proteins and on the consequences for intestinal physiology and pathophysiology. He has published 180 articles (source PubMed) that have been cited over 14 000 times (Google Scholar). He has previously published 2 books with Springer, namely "Nutritional and Physiological Functions of Amino Acids in Pigs" in 2013, and "Metabolism of Alimentary Compounds by the Intestinal Microbiota and Health" in 2023.