Prof. Laurent Kremer is Research Director of INSERM and heads the team “Mycobacterial Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutic Targets” at the Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier (IRIM), Montpellier, France. He completed his PhD studies in Molecular Microbiology at the Institut Pasteur de Lille, France. He received the 2019 ERS Research Award: Innovation in Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Science and Medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Microbiology and the French Society for Microbiology. His interests include Mycobacterium, cell wall, virulence, therapeutic targets, drug resistance mechanisms, zebrafish model of infection, phage therapy.