Dr. Lucile Capuron is a tenure 1st class Research Director at INRAE, Director of the laboratory of Nutrition and Integrative Neurobiology (NutriNeuro INRAE 1286–Univ Bordeaux), and head of the team Nutrition and Neuropsychiatric Symptom Dimensions, NutriPsy. She received her PhD, specialty health psychology/psychoneuroimmunology, in 1999 from the University of Bordeaux, France. Dr. Capuron was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry from 2002-2005 in the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA, where she held an adjunct faculty position until 2022. Her main research activity focuses on understanding the relationships between inflammation and neuropsychiatric symptoms in clinical/human settings and their modulation by nutritional and metabolic factors. She has an internationally recognized experience in the investigation of the central/mood effects of inflammatory factors in medically ill patients and the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects. Dr. Capuron has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and metabolism/nutrition. She is Associate Editor of Brain, Behavior & Immunity; and Frontiers in Neuropharmacology, and serves on the Editorial Board of Brain, Behavior and Immunity-Health. Dr. Capuron was awarded the Marcel Dassault Prize for Research in Mental Disorders 2018, and the Scientific Innovation Award of the “Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux” in Dec 2019 and was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in Jan 2026.
