Tuberculosis: in it for the long haul.

Professor Brigitte Gicquel is head of the Mycobacterial Genetics unit at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. After completing her undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Paris VII, she joined the Pasteur Institute in 1973 and has spent much of her scientific career concentrating on the genetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Gicquel coordinated both the European Commission's efforts to find a vaccine more efficient than bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for tuberculosis and its TB Ethics project. She was editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Tuberculosis. In 2004 she was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, France's highest order, and on World Tuberculosis Day in 2008 she was awarded the Georges, Jacques et Elias Canetti Prize for her research. Co ur te sy o f B rig itt e Gi cq ue l