Marianne Leruez-Ville is a MD specialized in Clinical Virology and holds a PHD in Virology. She is a consultant and at the head of the Virology laboratory of Necker-Hospital for sick children in Paris, France. She is the director of the congenital CMV laboratory within the French National Reference Center for Herpes Viruses and she belongs to a research group focusing on fetal abnormalities and their treatment (EA 7328, Imagine Institute, University of Paris). Her main research interest is clinical virology in relation to congenital CMV infection.