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Yasmine Belkaid (also Belkaïd; 1968) is an Algerian-French immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert in the immunology of the mucous membrane.

Yasmine Belkaid is the daughter of the former Algerian Minister for Higher Education, Aboubakr Belkaïd, who died in a terrorist attack in 1995. She earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry at the University of Sciences and Technology Houari-Boumediene in 1989 and a Master's degree in 1990. In 1991, she earned a Diplôme d'études approfondies from the University of Paris-South and the Institut Pasteur, and a Ph.D. In immunology. As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In 2002 she received a professorship at the Children's Hospital Research Foundation in Cincinnati (University of Cincinnati). Since 2005, she is back at NIAID, and since 2008 she had also a lecturer (adjunct professor) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Belkaid works on the interaction of microorganisms and the immune system at the most important boundaries between the individual and his environment, the skin and the intestinal mucosa. It investigates the role of the microbiome in the control of the immune defense, tissue-specific immune regulation and immunity as well as the role of nutrition in the immune response. In particular, it investigates the causative organisms Leishmania major, Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium and Microsporidium spp.

Belkaid received the gold medal of the 2013 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2016 the Prix Sanofi International mid-career, in 2016 she became a member of the American Academy of Microbiology appointed a special award from the American Society for Microbiology. In 2017 Belkaid was awarded the Emil von Behring Prize of the University of Marburg excellent and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.