Pierre Galichon is associate professor of Nephrology at Sorbonne University. He is also an attending Physician in Sorbonne University's kidney transplantation department in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France. His research lab at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) focuses on mechanisms of renal repair.

Dr. Galichon received his MD and PhD degrees from Sorbonne University in 2008 and 2013 respectively and worked in the kidney transplantation and renal intensive care unit at Tenon Hospital, France, before moving to Boston for a postdoctoral research project at Harvard Medical School in 2016-2018. In 2018, he was appointed as an associate professor in the renal transplantation department at Sorbonne University.

His research focuses on non-invasive biomarkers of kidney allograft dysfunction, and on the mechanisms of renal repair and resilience after acute kidney injury. He is the principal investigator of preclinical studies on various models of acute kidney injury, and of a government funded study on the prevention of delayed graft function by nicotinamide in kidney transplant recipients.