ASTRA 2025

Florent Ginhoux

Key Note Speaker, Gustave Roussy Hospital

Florent Ginhoux earned a degree in Biochemistry from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris VI, followed by a Master's in Immunology from the Pasteur Institute in 2000 and a PhD from UPMC in 2004. He then pursued postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Miriam Merad at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), New York, where he investigated the ontogeny and homeostasis of cutaneous dendritic cell populations, with a particular focus on Langerhans cells and microglia.
In 2008, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Gene and Cell Medicine at MSSM and became a member of its Immunology Institute. In 2009, he joined the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR, as a Junior Principal Investigator, and was promoted to Senior Principal Investigator in 2014. He was selected for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2013 and has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher since 2016, and elected as an EMBO Member in 2022.

He has held adjunct academic positions including Adjunct Visiting Associate Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Jiao Tong University (since 2015), and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Translational Immunology Institute, SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore (since 2016).

Currently, he is Laboratory Director at Gustave Roussy Hospital, where his research focuses on pediatric brain cancers and the role of myeloid cells in tumor progression.