Regular biography
Stewart Cole is a Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the BIO department. He is recognized as an international authority in bacterial molecular-genetics and genomics. His research focuses on bacterial anaerobic electron transport, genome analysis of retroviruses and papillomaviruses, antibiotic resistance mechanisms, and the molecular microbiology of toxigenic clostridia. His work on isoniazid and multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as the pathogenicity and genomics of tubercle and leprosy bacilli, has established him as a leader in mycobacterial research. He has published over 250 scientific papers and holds many patents. Cole is also the Head of UPCOL, a research unit dedicated to TB drug discovery.