Meet the Team
Pasteur Foundation-UK Board of Trustees
The Pasteur Foundation -UK's Board is comprised of leaders in the fields of science, business, and philanthropy, all dedicated to making a difference through cross-border research collaborations.
Professor Sir Stewart Cole
Chairman of the Board
Pasteur Foundation - UK
Sir Paul Nurse
Director - Francis Crick Institute
Nobel Laureat in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Stephen Brenninkmeijer
Founder and Principal -
Willows Investments UK
Ligia Torres
Former CEO Asia-Pacific
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Caroline Giboulet
Executive Director
Pasteur Foundation - UK
Antoine Bogaerts
Executive Vice- President, Development
Institut Pasteur
The Pasteur Foundation-UK Team
Sarah Bridge
Head of Development
Caroline Giboulet
Head of International Philanthropy
Anja Krause
Prospect Researcher
Florence Pasticier
Senior Development Manager
Professor Yasmine Belkaid
President and CEO, Institut Pasteur
Yasmine Belkaid graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's degrees 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.
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Professor Belakid then 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.
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Professor Belkaid 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).
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She took over as President and CEO of Institut Pasteur in Janurary 2024.