Laleh Majlessi, PhD, HDR, is associate professor at Institut Pasteur. She is interested in the interaction between mycobacteria and the etiological agent of human pulmonary tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with the host immune system and the induction of innate and adaptive anti-mycobacterial immune responses.
Her work on the immunogenicity of substrates of mycobacterial type VII secretion systems has applications in the development of new vaccine candidates against tuberculosis.
Laleh Majlessi was the winner of the Jean-Marie Dubert Prize for the best PhD in immunology from Paris VII University in 1994 and the winner of the Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti prize in 2016 for her work on mycobacteria.
