Marc Humbert - Biography#

Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the South Paris University in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he is heading the National Reference Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension and Severe Asthma Clinic at the Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

Along with membership to several scientific councils and institutes, Marc Humbert is the past Chairman of the Research Committee of the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and current Director of the INSERM Unit "Pulmonary Hypertension: Pathophysiology and Innovative Therapies" and of the “Thorax Innovation” University Hospital Department.

Since January 2013, he is the Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal. He has published widely in asthma, pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary inflammation in the most prestigious medical journals and has received several distinctions including the Cournand Lecture Award from the European Respiratory Society (2006) and the Descartes-Huygens Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009). Thomson Reuters listed Marc Humbert as one of the world’s most influential scientific minds in the field of Clinical Medicine (2014).