Prof. Yasmine Belkaid PhD

Yasmine Belkaid, was born in Algiers. She has Algerian citizenship by her father and French citizenship by her mother, and she also holds US citizenship.

Yasmine graduated with a Master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene in Algiers, as well as a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) from Paris-Sud University. She completed a PhD in immunology at Paris-Sud University and the Institut Pasteur in 1996, where she studied innate immune responses to Leishmania infection.

After her PhD, she moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship in intracellular parasite biology at NIAID’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (NIH). In 2002, she joined the Molecular Immunology Division at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Ohio) before returning to NIAID in 2005 as Head of the Mucosal Immunology Unit in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

From 2005 onwards, she occupied various positions at NIAID and NIH, and from 2021 she led the Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome at NIH.

Yasmine 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.