Arnaud Marchant, MD, PhD, is Director of the European Plotkin Institute for Vaccinology at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a joint initiative with the University of Antwerp to accelerate the evaluation of vaccines for pandemic and endemic pathogens. He has more than 20 years’ experience in infectious disease and vaccine immunology and worked at the Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia, and at the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, Oxford. His main research interest is infectious diseases in vulnerable populations and his activities are integrated in international networks, with support from the European Commission, the CEPI, HERA and the US NIH. He is teaching vaccinology in national and internal courses.