The Laboratory Working Party

Dr Alexandre Alanio is an M.D., Ph.D., expert in medical mycology and medical parasitology. He is currently Associate Professor in Paris VII University (Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France), Permanent Researcher in the molecular mycology unit and Collaborator of the French National Reference Center for Mycoses and Antifungals. He received his M.D. from Paris V university medical and its Ph.D. from Paris VII University. He owns more than 50 international publications and 4 international patents. He is currently teaching at the Paris VII Medical University for medical students, at the Paris Sorbonne Paris Cité Master I Microbiology course (IMVI), and at the Medical Mycology Course of the Institut Pasteur. He is leading a group with 1 technician, 1 engineer, 1 PhD student and 1 post-doctoral research associate. He is interested in dormancy and metabolism in Fungi, in particular in Cryptococcus neoformans and in pathophysiology of invasive fungal infections. He aims at bridging medical mycology with basic research on the pathophysiology of invasive fungal infections and translating new biological tools (bench) into diagnostic test for fungal and parasitic infections (bedside).On the bedside, he is actively working on the development of new molecular diagnostic tools for pneumocystosis, histoplasmosis, mucormycosis, aspergillosis, and other mold infections. He is also interested in the molecular epidemiology of antifungal resistance in clinically relevant fungi, in particular Aspergillus fumigatusor Candida glabrata. He recently published the ECIL-5 recommendation for the diagnosis of pneumocystosis in hematology patients and is part of the ISHAM Aspergillus resistance working group. He is member of ECCMID, ISHAM and ASM and is currently associate editor for New Microbes and New infections (ESCMID Journal).