Yasmine Belkaid

Yasmine Belkaid
Belkaid in 2017
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Algiers, Algeria
NationalityAlgerian, French, American.
Alma materUniversity of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene
University of Paris-Sud
Pasteur Institute
Known forMicrobiome
AwardsSanofi-Pasteur Award
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology, Microbiology
InstitutionsNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
University of Pennsylvania

'Yasmine Belkaid; born August 1968) is an immunologist, currently President of the Institut Pasteur. She has Algerian citizenship by her father and French citizenship by her mother, and she also holds US citizenship.

She is best known for her work studying host-microbe interactions in tissues and immune regulation to microbes. Belkaid currently serves as the director of the NIAID Microbiome program.[1] On 29 March 2023, she was appointed as President of the Pasteur Institute for a six-year term, starting from January 2024.[2]

  1. ^ hermes (2018-09-04). "Keep your gut healthy – and your skin may follow". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  2. ^ "Professor Yasmine Belkaid appointed Institut Pasteur President". Institut Pasteur. 31 March 2023.