She is Associate Member in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Associate member of the Goodman Cancer Centre and a member of the Center for the Study of Host Resistance and the Division of Critical Care of the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute. She joined the faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 2005. She is a McGill University Dawson Scholar, a FRSQ Chercheur-Boursier Junior 2 and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease. Dr. Saleh's research group investigates innate immunity, inflammation and cell death mechanisms in host defense to pathogens and cancer.