James Di Santo elected Chair of the Institut Pasteur's Scientific Council

The Institut Pasteur Scientific Council met on October 1. During this session, James Di Santo was elected Chair of the Council, taking over from Carmen Buchrieser for a two-year term.

James Di Santo, a Professor at the Institut Pasteur and senior Director of Research at Inserm, obtained a PhD in Science and an MD at Cornell University, New York, in 1991. He then carried out a post-doctoral internship at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, in the unit led by Alain Fischer, before joining Inserm in 1994. In 1999, he was appointed Head of the Institut Pasteur's Cytokines and Lymphoid Development Unit (which became the Innate Immunity unit in 2010). Since 2005 he has directed the Pathophysiology of the Immune System Unit (U668, now U1223) at Inserm. He became a Professor at the Institut Pasteur in 2007.

James Di Santo has received several prizes and awards, including an ERC Advanced Grant, the Jacques Oudin Award for Immunology, the Jean-Paul Binet Award from the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM) and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Cornell University. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea and the Henry Kunkel Society.

James Di Santo has been a member of the Scientific Council since May 2017, and his term was extended on June 28, 2019. He began his new role on October 1, 2019.

In these elections, Carla Saleh was voted in as Vice-chair and Arnaud Echard as Secretary of the Scientific Council.

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