Dr. Maxime Merheb received a Master’s degree in “Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology” from University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France. Prior to coming to AURAK, Dr. Merheb worked as Assistant Professor in the French National Platform for Ancient and Degraded DNA (PALGENE) and in the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL), in Lyon, France.