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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

After studying chemistry in Lille, France, Pascale Cossart obtained a masters degree from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Returning to France, she obtained her Ph.D. in Paris at the Institut Pasteur, where she now heads the Bacteria-Cell Interactions unit, which is also an Inserm and an INRA unit. After studying DNA-protein interactions, in 1986 Dr. Cos-sart began to study the molecular and cellular basis of infections by intracellular bacteria, taking as a model the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Her research has led to new concepts in infection biology as well as in microbiology, cell biology, and epigenetics.

Pascale Cossart is considered a pioneer in cellular microbiology. Her contributions have been recognized by a number of international awards, including the L’Oreal/UNESCO Prize for Women in Science (1998), the Richard Lounsbery Prize (Académie des Sciences, Paris/National Academy of Sciences, 1998), the Robert Koch Prize (2007), the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2008), and the Balzan Prize (2013). She is a member of the French Academy of Science (2002); a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences (United States; 2009), the German Leopoldina (2001), the Royal Society (United Kingdom; 2010), and the National Academy of Medicine (United States; 2014); and, since January 2016, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l’Académie des Sciences, Institut Pasteur. (Photo courtesy of Agnès Ullmann.)