Laurent Gorvel
Post-doctoral researcher
Bio :I am an Immunologist specializing in myeloid cell functions, mainly macrophages and dendritic cells, and tumor microenvironments. After obtaining my PhD in 2013 on dendritic cell and macrophage responses to chronic bacterial infections, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on dendritic cell regulation of cytotoxic cells in health and diseases. I am currently a postdoc within the Immunity & Cancer team and the Immunomonitoring platform at the CRCM (Marseille) where I investigate macrophage-mediated resistance to conventional cancer therapies as well as macrophage targeting therapies in gynecological tumors. My studies rely on high-dimensional techniques such as, scRNA-sequencing, mass and spectral cytometry as well as spatial characterization of tumor microenvironments to identify novel therapeutic targets. Recently, I co-founded the BIOHAFIA cytometry platform and master’s program at the University of Labé in Guinea to help with the development of cytometry and immunology in this country.
