Anne Peyroche named CNRS Chief Research Officer

CNRS President Alain Fuchs has appointed Anne Peyroche as new Chief Research Officer. She will take up her post on 18 January 2016, replacing Philippe Baptiste, who is taking up other duties. Peyroche, a researcher at the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), is currently deputy cabinet director (in charge of research) at the French State Secretariat for Higher Education and Research. Anne Peyroche studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, where she came first in the biochemistry and bioengineering agrégation (France's highest teaching diploma) in 1994 and obtained a DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in Cell and Molecular Biology in 1995. In 1999 she defended a thesis at Université Pierre et Marie Curie on the exchange factors of the ARF small G protein involved in intracellular traffic. As a researcher at CEA, she first carried out research into intracellular protein traffic, and subsequently into responses to DNA damage and proteasome assembly. In 2013, she became deputy director of the Molecular Genetics and Cell Fate Laboratory (CNRS/CEA/Université Paris-Sud).