Thierry Michon

Thierry Michon is project leader at INRA since 2001. He was awarded a PhD in enzymology at the University of Aix-Marseille II, France, in 1992. In 1993, he accepted a position of researcher at INRA in Nantes. Between 1998 and 2001 he was an invited scientist at the California Institute of Technology and worked in close collaboration with Prof. D. Tirrell. His current research focuses on possible correlations between virus evolution and the intrinsic disorder found in viral proteins and the development of virus-based enzymes nanocarriers (ENCs) for nanotechnology applications.