L’Oréal has created a Scientific Advisory Board. The beauty company recruited 9 distinguished scientists from diverse disciplines and of varied nationalities, to be its first members.

Its mission will be to come up with unexpected ideas pertaining to L’Oréal Research’s fields of interests, to explore the emerging scientific and technological domains of the future.

Laurent Attal, executive vice-president of Research and Innovation, L’Oréal, said, “The establishment of a Scientific Advisory Board is essential and is a first for us. It is essential because science is the basis of all our innovations. In a rapidly changing world, the Board’s reflexions will contribute to strengthening the link between science and beauty worldwide, and as such will be an extraordinary source of inspiration and guidance.”

The Board will meet twice each year, and held its first meeting yesterday in Paris under the chairmanship of Jacques Leclaire, scientific director, L’Oréal Research and Innovation.

L’Oréal’s new Scientific Advisory Board’s members are:

Bonnie Bassler, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Squibb; professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Thomas Bieber, department chairman and professor of Dermatology and Allergy at the University of Bonn, Germany

Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani, professor at the Institute of Chemistry São Paulo State University, Araraquara Brazil

Elaine Fuchs, professor of Cell Biology and Development, Rockefeller University, NY

Nina Jablonski, distinguished professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, PA

Dominique Langevin, director of research, Laboratory of Solid State Physics, CNRS, University of Paris-Sud, France

Samir Mitragotri, professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara California

Jun Wang, director BGI (Shenzhen) and Professor, University of Copenhagen

René Wijffels, chairman of the Bioprocess Engineering Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands