Naomi Taylor received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, studying the disruption of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency under the direction of Dr. George Miller. She then returned to clinical pediatrics, pursuing training in bone marrow transplantation at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. In 1996, Dr. Taylor began her own group at the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, a joint CNRS/University of Montpellier research institute in the south of France. Her group focused on contributing to our understanding of T cell immunodeficiencies, the development of hematopoietic stem cell and T cell-based therapeutic strategies, and the impact of nutrient transport and utilization in erythropoiesis and lymphopoeisis. She was promoted to a 1st class INSERM Research Director position in 2008 and benefited from two sabbaticals in the Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute. In 2018, Dr. Taylor returned to the United States as a Senior Investigator in the Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute. Dr. Taylor remains a visiting Professor at the University of Montpellier.