Bruno Coutard is currently professor at Aix Marseille University. In 2007, he obtained a PhD in Biotechnology dedicated to infectious diseases. He was appointed by CNRS from 2001 to 2018. During this period, he participated to several European programs dedicated to emerging viruses, their structural and functional characterization as well as drug-design projets for the development of antivirals. He is among the first partners of the European Virus Archive (EVA), an international collection viruses supported by EU since 2008. He became coordinator of EVA in 2022.

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