Laleh Majlessi, PhD, Associate Professor at Institut Pasteur, France, is interested in the host-mycobacteria interaction and notably the immunogenicity of the substrates of mycobacterial type VII secretion systems, which has applications in the development of new TB vaccine candidates. She was awarded the Jean-Marie Dubert Prize for her Ph.D thesis in cellular immunology and the Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize for her research on anti-mycobacterial immunity. She is member of the Collaboration for TB Vaccine Development (CTVD) and is presently the deputy scientific director of Pasteur-Theravectys Joint Lab at Institut Pasteur, which develops subunit vaccinal vectors against infectious diseases.