The Scientific Council: missions and composition

The Institut Pasteur’s Scientific Council issues an opinion on all issues of scientific policy, organization, and research and teaching program. It must be consulted on the creation, abolition and consolidation of research and teaching structures. It meets at least twice a semester.

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Composition of the Scientific Council (SC)

 

Internal Members

Elected

Position

Mandate

Caroline DEMANGEL (President)

Head of the Immunobiology and Therapy Lab

End of 1st mandate March 2027 SC meeting

Arnaud ECHARD

Head of the Membrane Traffic and Cell Division Lab

End of 2nd mandate March 2027 SC meeting

Ivo GOMPERTS BONECA

Head of the Biology and Genetics of Bacterial Cell Wall Lab

End of 1st mandate March 2029 SC meeting

Louis LAMBRECHTS

Head of the Insect-Virus Interactions Lab

End of 1st mandate March 2029 SC meeting

 

Appointed

Position

Mandate

Eduardo ROCHA

(Secretary)

Head of the Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Lab

End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting

Gerald SPAETH

(Vice-President)

Head of the Molecular Parasitology and Signaling Lab

End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting

External Members

Appointed

Position

Mandate

Monica BETTENCOURT DIAS

Director of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

End of 1st mandate June 2029 SC meeting

Ana FERNANDEZ-SESMA

Professor and Chair of the Microbiology Department, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinaï, New York, USA

End of 1st mandate June 2028 SC meeting

Elodie GHEDIN

Senior Investigator and Director of the Systems Genomics Section (NIH), USA

End of 2nd mandate June 2029 SC meeting

François GUILLEMOT

Senior group leader, Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

End of 2nd mandate June 2027 SC meeting

Janet KELSO

Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

End of 1st mandate June 2029 SC meeting

Anne O’GARRA

Senior Group Leader, Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Infection, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

End of 2nd mandate June 2026 SC meeting

Tracy PALMER

Professor of Microbiology and Lead for the Microbes in Health and Disease Theme in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, UK

End of 1st mandate June 2029 SC meeting

Federica SALLUSTO

Professor of Medical Immunology at the ETH Zurich and USI Lugano and group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

End of 1st mandate June 2028 SC meeting

Ari WAISMAN

Chair and Professor of Immunology, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

End of 2nd mandate June 2029 SC meeting

Xiadong ZHANG

Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function, Imperial College London & The Francis Crick Institute

End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting

 

Updated the 2025, October 29th

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