Olivier Schwartz

Olivier Schwartz is a French pharmacist who, since 2018, has served as scientific director of the Institut Pasteur.

Schwartz received his Ph.D. in virology from Paris 7 University and later joined the Institut Pasteur's Virus and Immunity Unit, where he studied HIV and the Zika virus, prior to his 2018 appointment as the institute's scientific director.^[1] He has also served on the scientific advisory board of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and on the external advisory board of the University of Cardiff's Systems Immunity Research Institute.^[2][3]