Researcher

Florent Ginhoux obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI. As a postdoctoral fellow, he joined the Laboratory of Miriam Merad in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), New York, where he studied the ontogeny and the homeostasis of cutaneous dendritic cell populations, with a strong focus on Langerhans cells and Microglia. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, MSSM and member of the Immunology Institute of MSSM. He joined A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) in May 2009 as a Principal Investigator before becoming Senior Principal Investigator in 2017. He has been a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher since 2016, and an EMBO member since 2022. Ginhoux is also an Adjunct Visiting Associate Professor in the Shanghai Immunology Institute, Jiao Tong University, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Translational Immunology Institute, SingHealth and Duke NUS. He is now a laboratory director at the Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France. His new laboratory focuses on paediatric cancers.