Bertrand Jordan's Biography

Bertrand Jordan, Director, Marseille-Nice Genopole

Bertrand R Jordan (CNRS emeritus research director, ret.), an academic molecular biologist with particular achievements in the field of molecular immunology, is the founder and coordinator of the Marseille-Nice Genopole genomics consortium and counselor to the CoreBio-PACA technical platform organisation. An early contributor to DNA array development since 1995, he is also a consultant for French (Ipsogen), Dutch (PamGene) and Taiwanese (Phalanx, Dr. Chip) microarray companies, that operate in fields ranging from prognostic and predictive expression profiling in breast cancer, to “companion diagnostics” based on multiplex kinase activity measurement, and to efficient bacterial diagnostics in the food industry. He recently coordinated a book, “Microarrays in diagnostics and biomarker development” (Springer, 2012)