Dr. Bruno Lina

• Dr.Lina currently holds the positions of Professor of Virology, Université de Lyon (since 2001); Head of the laboratoire de Virologie Est des Hospices Civils de Lyon (since 2006); Head of the UCBL-CNRS FRE3011 research Lab on Influenza virus (since 2007), Director of the National Influenza Center (NIC), Lyon (since 1999); Member of the French Pandemic planning committe and Comité de lutte contre le Grippe of the Ministry of Health (since 1997); Chair of the Groupe d’Experts et d’Information sur la grippe (since 2005); Chair of the WHO Advisory Group for the sharing of virus and benefits (since 2008); President of the European Society for Clinical Virology (since 2007). Dr.Lina studied medicine at the University of Lyon where he graduated as a MD in 1990 and completed his PhD in 1994.

• Dr. Lina is also a member of several professional societies including: American Society for Microbiology, European Society for Clinical Virology, Société Francaise de Microbiologie.

• He was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2010.

• He has been the Co-PI of several national and international collaborative projects in the fields of virology in the past 8 years.

• Furthermore he holds editorial positions for scientific publications for the Journal of Clinical Virology and the Influenza Research and Treatment Journal. He is the winner of the ASM Young Investigator award (1994), holds several patents, has been the supervisor and mentor of more than 15 PhD students. Over the last 16 years, Dr. Lina is author of more than 100 scientific papers, including reviews, book chapters. He has been the author of a Book on the A(H1N1) pandemic virus and asked for numerous junior scientific review of pandemic viruses in Junior scientific reviews in French.