Pierre Buffet is coordinator of the LeishMan group. He is an expert in leishmaniasis, malaria and other parasitic diseases. He has been working on leishmaniasis since the 1980s, and has clinical and microbiological expertise in this field (in vitro and animal models). He works closely with the National Reference Center for Leishmaniasis and the Parasitology Laboratory at Hôpital Cochin. He is also a Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur.

Clea Melenotte is an infectiologist. She co-coordinates the LeishMan network and works closely with the national reference center for leishmaniasis in France. She is developing her expertise in parasitic infections at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, in collaboration with the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris.