Présentation du pôle

Chantal Rabourdin-Combe is a professor of immunology at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Former student at the ENS de Sèvres (Paris), it supports his thesis of State in Paris VII in 1981 in the field of suppressor T cells.


In two Post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford and Geneva, then a stay at the Pasteur Institute in the laboratory of Philippe Kourilsky, Chantal Rabourdin-Combe working in the field of molecular immunology and develops especially research on Cloning and expression of genes regulating the immune response.


Chantal Rabourdin-Combe joined the ENS Lyon in 1987 and participates in the creation of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Cell. His team will then conduct research to understand the mechanisms responsible for immunosuppression induced by measles virus.


In 1998 she created the Immunobiology Unit basic and clinical under the CERVI (Center for Studies and Research on Virology and Immunology).


In 2003 she founded the IFR Biosciences Lyon Gerland, direct it until 2008.

Chantal Rabourdin-Combe specialist today is the plasticity of dendritic cells, a key element of the immune process.

She participated in 2007 in the creation of RTRA (Network Category Advanced Research) Infectious Innovation, which she served as vice-principal until his appointment on 1 July 2008 as assistant director in charge of research at the Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon.