Stanislav Dusko EHRLICH was trained in Organic Chemistry at the University of Zagreb, Croatia and obtained PhD degree in Biochemistry at the University Paris VII, France. He was a research associate of Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize winner, in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, California. He founded and directed Microbial Genetics Research Unit and the Microbiology Division at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and coordinated the MetaHIT project. He authored or co-authored 350 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 60 book chapters and 14 patents and holds an H index of 75. He is member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, French Academy of Agriculture, the European Molecular Biology Organisation, the American Academy of Microbiology and the European Academy of Microbiology. He is Research Director Emeritus at INRA, where he is the PI of the Metagenopolis project and Professor at King’s College London, where he is Director of the Centre for Host Microbiome Interactions. He is Laureate of the Excellence in the Agricultural Research of INRA and of the Grand Prix Scientifique Del Duca de l’Institut de France, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Mérite et de la Légion d’Honneur.