Johannes Le Coutre
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Fields of expertise
- Nutrition Science
- Food Research
- Translational Research
- Food Research
- Translational Research
Biography
Dr le Coutre obtained his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany in 1995. Between 1996-2000, he held a postdoctoral post and was a research associate at HHMI / UCLA, Los Angeles. Since 2000 he has been a Senior Research Scientist and Head of Perception Physiology at the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr le Coutre holds a teaching assignment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and he is a visiting Professor at Todai University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 2017 le Coutre is responsible for Nestlé Research in the greater London area, where he holds a visiting Professorship at Imperial College London.Over the past decade le Coutre has initiated various large scale global research programs integrating the private and the public sectors. With a strong track record of membrane biophysics his research focus has been shifting from taste physiology at the periphery toward central representation of stimulation in the brain.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Life Sciences Engineering
Courses
Scientific project design in translational neurosciences
The goal of this course is to instruct the student how fundamental scientific knowledge, acquired through the study of fundamental disciplines, including biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, physiology, genomics, cell and molecular biology can be applied for drug discovery and development.