Anna-Bella Failloux
French Polynesian entomologist
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Anna-Bella Failloux is a French Polynesian entomologist who is a professor of medical entomology at the Pasteur Institute.
Failloux was born on Raiatea[1] and grew up on Tahiti.[2] She studied plant physiology at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, before completing a thesis on the parasitic worms responsible for Lymphatic filariasis at Paris-Sud University.[2] She then worked at the Malardé Institute before joining the Pasteur Institute in 1994.[3] Since 2011 she has been director of research on arboviruses and insect vectors.[4] Her work has covered Bancroft's filariasis, Dengue fever, and Chikungunya.[2]
In January 2015 she was made a knight of the Legion of Honour for her work on mosquito-borne diseases.[4]
In February 2019 she was promoted to professor at the Pasteur Institute.[2]
