Christophe Benoist

Christophe Benoist is the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School.

He received his MD from the Université Paris Diderot, and his PhD in Molecular Biology at Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. After training with Pierre Chambon as a molecular biologist in transcriptional regulation (Ovalbumin, SV40), Dr. Benoist switched to molecular immunology as a post-doctoral fellow with Hugh McDevitt in Stanford, where he participated in the first cloning of class-II genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex.

He returned to France at the end of 1983, establishing a joint laboratory with Dr. Diane Mathis at the LGME (later IGBMC) in Strasbourg. In 1999, the Mathis/Benoist lab moved to the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The lab joined the HMS Pathology Department in 2009.