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 |
|
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 |
|
Magdalena GÖTZ |
Professor and Chair of Physiological Genomics, Biomedical Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – and -Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany |
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 |
|
Caren NORDEN |
Professor Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal. As of April 2026 she will serve as Charles Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology at the University of Cambridge, UK. |
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 |
|
Xiaodong ZHANG |
Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function, Imperial College London & The Francis Crick Institute |
End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting |
Updated the 2026, April 28 th
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