Pherosynthese is a Research Institute specialized in applied ethology and chemical communication founded in November 1995 by Dr Patrick Pageat and Hugues Lucas de Leyssac.
The aim of this Research Centre was to improve our understanding of domestic animal behavior and create new tools for direct communication.
Knowing the crucial role of communication inreducing fear and aggression, we assumed that chemical communication was a specific and effective way of providing ethical solutions to the prevention and treatment of animal behavior problems. Fifteen years on, this principle is fully established and the efficacy of pheromonotherapy is recognized worldwide.
Such exciting results have been obtained thanks to a very competent research team. The initial staff of two persons in 1995 has grown to 20 today and each year, 4 to 6 students join us as trainees. This intellectual melting-pot, made of scientists having very different skills and experiences, is probably the secret of our success.
Pherosynthese Research Institute is the realization of a dream. The development of semiochemical analogues provides a new way to communicate with our companion animals, livestock animals and pests and parasitic insects. This communication could help avoid the brutality of the methods commonly used to control these animals.
Pherosynthese Research Institute is a private research centre and is only owned by its two founders.
