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Pierre-Antoine Gourraud is Professeur des Universités Praticien-Hospitalier of the School of Medicine of the Nantes University in France and associate professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), USA. He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in the department of molecular and cellular Biology. After an M.P.H. received from University Paris XI in 2002, he got his Ph.D. in Immunogenetic Epidemiology and Public Health from Toulouse University in 2005. Soon afterward, he obtained a joint appointment at the Toulouse Hospitals and the Toulouse University in the Department of Public Health. He relocated to the United States to perform a postdoctoral research in Neuro-Immunogenetics of Multiple Sclerosis at UCSF in 2009 and joined the UCSF faculty in 2011. He was offered a tenure position in 2015 to join the university and hospital academic communities in Nantes. Prof. Gourraud has established many research collaborations with a large network of investigators from all over the world: He developed bioinformatics tools for the study of immunogenetic markers with, he performed numerous genetic association studies on various diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and leukaemia), and he also conducted population genetics analyses of European populations (HLA and KIR genes). He developed software dedicated to statistical genetics and designed an algorithm to support decision making for the treatment of haematological diseases.