Mireille Centlivre, PhD, is the Chief Operating Officer of the VRI. She is in charge of the scientific coordination and (national and international) projects’ follow up between the director of the VRI and the 17 international teams of the VRI. She conducted her PhD thesis at the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France) and performed her post-doct at the Amsterdam Medical Center (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and at the CIMI-Paris (Paris, France). Her research activities are on the pathophysiology of HIV infection, vaccination against HIV and preclinical HIS mice model.