Professor Yasmine Belkaid

Professor Yasmine Belkaid is an immunologist and the President of the Pasteur Institut. Previously, she was a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and led the Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome at NIH. Her lab aims to understand the tissue-specific regulatory responses to infection throughout the life course and mechanisms by which host-microbial responses are regulated in tissues, including the intestine and how dysregulation of these responses leads to pathology.  

Professor Belkaid has published more than 220 scientific papers on infection, immunity, immunology, microbiota and nutrition. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the Robert Koch Prize (2021), the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2019) and the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Prize (2016). She is a member of several scientific committees and advisory boards, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as the Microbiome Technical Advisory Group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the NIH Anti-Racism Steering Committee, the American Society of Microbiology and the Genentech Scientific Resource Board.