Michel Lagarde

Michel Lagarde is a professor emeritus at INSA-Lyon (Lyon University). A former research scientist at Inserm, then director of an Inserm research unit, he taught biochemistry and molecular biology at the BioSciences Department of INSA-Lyon for 25 years. He founded the Institute for Multidisciplinary Biochemistry of Lipids (IMBL), and has been the president of several scientific societies dedicated to lipids, including the International Conference on the Bioscience of lipids (ICBL).