Maria Carla Saleh#
| Membership Number: | 6668 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.salehlab.eu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8593-4117 |
| Twitter: | @SalehLabParis |
| Linkedin: | https://linkedin.com/in/salehcarla |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2020 Full Professor, Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 2013 - 2019 Associate Professor, Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 2008 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Group leader of Viruses & RNAi Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 2001 - 2007 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA
- 1997 - 2000 PhD Student fellow, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Arbovirus
- Mosquito
- Tolerance
- Memory
- Vector control
- RNAi
- Invertebrates
- Viral persistence
- Drosophila
- Innate immunity
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Elected International Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
- 2020 Lucien Tartois Award from the Medical Research Foundation.
- 2020 Elected EMBO Member.
- 2018 Commencement/Graduation Speaker for the Promotion Louis Pasteur, Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), France.
- 2015 French Laureate for the MEP-Scientists Pairing Scheme (European Parliament for Scientific Policy).
- 2014 Langevin Award from the French Academy of Sciences.
- 2014 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2013 Pasteur Vallery-Radot Award from the French Academy of Sciences and the National Library.
- 2009 ERC Starting Grant
- 2001 Philippe Foundation Award. France-US scientists’ exchange program.
- 1997 MSCA – Fellowship for Ph.D. Students. European Commission.
- 1996 Best Teacher Award. National University of Cordoba, Argentina.
