Elias Fattal is Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Université Paris XI, Deputy Director of the Unité Mixte de Recherche at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR CNRS 8612) and research group leader in the field of nanotechnology applied to the development of protein carrier systems , peptides and nucleic acids. His research activity is focused on the design of nano and microtechnologies for the transport of peptides/proteins and nucleic acids. He is the author or co-author of approximately 160 publications and book chapters and 11 patents.