Cécile Peltekian

Cécile holds a Ph.D in fundamental Virology. Her research background focused on two human viruses: she first carried out research on Interferon antiviral effect against Hepatitis B virus, as a PhD fellow at Inserm U370/Institute Pasteur Paris, Pr. C. Bréchot’s Lab. As a postdoctoral research associate, she  joined the Department of Immunology of Imperial College (London, UK), directed by Professor. C.R.M Bangham, to conduct a research project on Human T Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) transmission. She then moved back in France to  managed large biomedical research programmes, from basic research to clinical trials, working with internal scientists, medical doctors, technlogy transfert offices and international stakeholders. For 13 years, she get hands on experience in biomedical research programmes management and running collaborations in public-private partnerships, combining expertise in fundamental virology, immunology, vaccinology and clinical research. In 2015, she joined Institut Pasteur to coordinate actions of the Institut Pasteur Research & Innovation Carnot programme. In the frame of the Department for Scientific Programming and Incentive Actions, she also contributed to the scoping and development of a funding strategy to deliver the Institut Pasteur’scientific programme. Today Cécile is managing the Virology, Global Health  and Computational Biology departments on all their scientific aspects.