Anna Laura Ross, PhD is currently the head of the HIV vaccine research office and will be replacing ANRS (Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida et les hépatites virales) Director, Dr. Jean-Fracois Delfraissy as the Executive Committee representative. Based in Paris, Dr. Ross oversees and manages the ANRS' comprehensive programme dedicated to the development of HIV vaccines, in tight collaboration with the programme's scientific director. The HIV vaccine research office is in charge of the scientific, legal, ethical and regulatory aspects pertaining to the basic science programme, the clinical trials and vaccine development. Dr. Ross also served as the scientific coordinator for the AIDS Vaccine 2009 conference. Prior to joining the ANRS, Dr. Ross completed her postdoctoral training at the Medical Research Council LMB (Cambridge, UK) and the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) where she carried out research on innate mechanisms of restriction to HIV-1. Dr. Ross holds a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge, UK.