Dr. Petronela Ancuta

Dr. Petronela Ancuta is Full Professor in the Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, where she received her first Faculty position in 2006. She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University. She has a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Université de Paris Sud XI, Orsay, France (2000), with work on HIV immune restoration during antiretroviral treatment. During her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School (2001-2006) she acquired expertise in molecular mechanisms of cell trafficking and HIV neuropathogenesis. In 2006, she set up her independent research group at the CHUM Research Centre. During her training/career she received multiple salary awards from ANRS and INSERM, France, and FRQ-S, QC, Canada. Her Research Program is/was funded since 2006 by the ANRS, INSERM, CIHR and NIH, and most recently by GSK/NeoMed. She is a member of the AIDS and Frontiers in Immunology Editorial boards an ad-hoc peer reviewer for multiple journals and funding agencies (ANRS, FRQ-S, CIHR).