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

Jean-Marc GHIGO (President) Head of the Genetics of Biofilms Lab End of 2nd mandate March 2025 SC meeting
Caroline DEMANGEL (Vice-President) Head of the Immunobiology and Therapy Lab

End of 1st mandate March 2027 SC meeting

Michaela MÜLLER-TRUTWIN (Secretary) Head of the HIV, inflammation and persistence Lab

End of 2nd mandate March 2025 SC meeting

Arnaud ECHARD Head of the Membrane Traffic and Cell Division Lab

End of 2nd mandate March 2027 SC meeting

 

Appointed 

Position

Mandate

Eduardo ROCHA

Head of the Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Lab

End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting

Gerald SPAETH

Head of the Molecular Parasitology and Signaling Lab

End of 1st mandate June 2027 SC meeting

 

 

 

External Members

Appointed 

Position

 Mandate 

Amos BAIROCH

Prof. Department of Human Protein Science, Computer and Laboratory Investigation of Proteins of Human Origin (CALIPHO), University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland

End of 2nd mandate June 2025 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 September 2028

Elodie GHEDIN

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

End of 1st mandate June 2025 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

Nicholas HASTIE

Prof. MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK

End of 2nd mandate June 2025 SC meeting

Yvonne JONES

Prof. Division of Structural Biology, Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

End of 2nd mandate June 2027 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

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 September 2028

Ari WAISMAN

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

End of 1st mandate June 2025 SC meeting

Updated the 2024, August 29

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