Beatrice Renault joined the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in 2015 as chief strategy officer. She works with the president to implement the Foundation’s mission: to increase support for biomedical research.

A molecular biologist by training, she is passionate about basic research and how it can lead to transformative knowledge for the clinic. Being attentive to early-career scientists and developing creative approaches to engage with the scientific community have guided her commitment to the scientific enterprise. In the past 10 years, Dr. Renault has developed the Lasker Foundation’s communication platforms and education initiatives, all the while nurturing long-term collaborations to foster the next generation of scientists and clinicians.

Before joining Lasker, Dr. Renault served as chief scientific officer of the New York Academy of Sciences. She also was the publisher of Nature Research journals and the chief editor of Nature Medicine.

She completed her PhD in molecular biology at the University of Pavia, Italy, and at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Renault then held a postdoctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, working on the Human Genome Project. More recently she completed an MPhil in sociology at Columbia University.