Annie FRELET-BARRAND has been a CNRS researcher at the FEMTO-ST Institute since 2015. She studied biochemistry at the University of Franche-Comté (France) and graduated with a MS in 1998. In 2006, she received her Ph.D. in the membrane proteins (MP) characterization of plants from the Institute of Plant Biology, Zurich. During her postdoctoral fellowship (CEA Grenoble, France), she developed the L. lactis system for the functional expression and characterization of MPs. In 2009, she became a CNRS Researcher at CEA Saclay, studying the MPs involved in liver detoxification after expression in L. lactis. She is now engineering and qualifying, by diverse biological, biochemical and biophysical techniques, elements from MPs and engineered and native prokaryotic and eukaryotic vesicles into bacteria and mammalian cells. She has published 20 research articles and four book chapters (h=16). She was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices in 2020 with her co-authors.