Anne Peyroche named interim president of CNRS

Anne Peyroche today assumed the role of interim president of the CNRS. She has taken over from Alain Fuchs, who held the position since 2010. (Fuchs is the new president of Paris Sciences & Lettres, also as of today. Peyroche has been CNRS Chief Research Officer since January 2016. An alumna of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Anne Peyroche received an advanced teaching diploma (agrégation) in biochemistry and bioengineering in 1994, after achieving the highest score for the diploma exam. The following year she received a French DEA degree for studies in molecular and cellular biology. At Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in 1999, she defended her thesis on the exchange factors of the small G-protein ARF, involved in intracellular traffic.