Alice Dautry, PhD is President of the Institut Pasteur. She was trained as a physicist at the University of Paris and as a molecular biologist at the University of New York. She has devoted her career in France and during her stays in the United States, at the National Institutes of Health and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to research, training, teaching and evaluation and management of research. Prof. Alice Dautry has published some 130 publications in international scientific journals dealing with her studies in cell biology, receptors and infectious agents. Her teaching activities included: Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Director of the Molecular Biology of the Cell course at the Institut Pasteur, Training of PhD students and post doctoral fellows. She is a member of the Board of trustees of higher education and research institutions, Ecole Polytechnique, ISTA (Austria), DNDi (Switzerland) and of the External Reference Group for Health Research Strategy of the WHO