Biographie de Jean-Claude Pechère
Professor Emeritus Jean-Claude Pechère was born in Belgium and was educated in France and the United States. A practicing doctor, he has taught microbiology and infectious diseases at universities in Paris, Quebec, Geneva, Tunis, Marrakech and Vientiane, and has delivered lectures in more than 60 countries on five continents. The notion of the intelligent microbe grew out of 30 years of internationally recognized research into the mechanisms of bacterial resistance. He is also involved in education and development projects in emerging regions of Asia and Africa.