Authors

Christian Brechot is a physician, teacher, and scientist. He was a professor of medicine at Paris Cite University (now Paris Cite), head of a clinical liver department and director of a research unit at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm). He then became President of the French Inserm (the French NIH). Subsequently, he served as Vice President of the Mérieux Institute, and President of the Pasteur Institute. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the University of South Florida and President, then Vice-Chairman, of the Global Virus Network, a network of 80 virology research centers worldwide.

Emmanuel Roux comes from a long line of pioneers driven by curiosity and humanism. Having spent his formative years on farms, he discovered early on the importance of soil and human microbiomes through one of his uncles, Dr. Jacques Bas, a gastroenterologist who, in 1950, founded the French Association for Research on Normal Nutrition and promoted agricultural methods close to natural systems. Following a highly diverse career and entrepreneurial spirit, he created agrifood and restaurant businesses as well as organic farming initiatives. He resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he developed an educational urban farm concept based on soil regeneration. He is a consultant for the development of short-cycle agrifood systems.