Yasmine Belkaid

Yasmine Belkaid (Arabic: ياسمين بلقايد; born 1968) is an Algerian immunologist who is best known for her work studying host-microbe interactions in tissues and immune regulation to microbes.

She earned her doctorate in immunology from the Pasteur Institute in 1996, where she studied innate immune responses to Leishmania infection.

Following graduate school, she moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at NIAID's Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

[4] Belkaid's research focuses on untangling the mechanisms underlying host-microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract and on the skin, which are natural barrier sites between the host's inner workings and their external environment.

[8] Her team has also found that beneficial bacteria living on the surface of the skin can also accelerate wound healing in mice.

Yasmine Belkaid, accompanied by her mother, was the guest of honor for the 50th anniversary of Abou Bekr Belkaid University in Tlemcen , named in memory of her late father.