Bart Lambrecht#
| Membership Number: | 6671 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.irc.ugent.be/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4376-6834 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - 2005 Staff Pulmonary Physician at Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
- 2002 - 2007 Chief, Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 2006 - present Professor of Medicine, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 2007 - present Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2007 - present Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2012 - present Department Director, VIB-UGent-Center for Inflammation Research
- 2019 Visiting Professor, UCSF, Department of Medicine, San Francisco
Fields of Scholarship
- COV-AID trial addressing the impact of early interleukin-1 and -6 blockade in COVID-19
- Activation of dendritic cells and macrophages to bridge innate and adaptive immunity in the lung
- Inflammatory response to allergen inhalation or exacerbations by respiratory virus
- Traditional immunological functions of APCs
- New immunomodulators in COVID-19
- Role of antigen-presenting in asthma
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Paul Ehrlich Award for Experimental Research 2022, awarded by EAACI in Prague
- 2022 Elected as Regular Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium
- 2021 Eugenio Morelli Foundation International Prize for studies in the field of pulmonology (awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome)
- 2021 K. Frank Austen, MD FAAAAI & Albert L. Sheffer, MD FAAAAI Lectureship at the 2021 AAAAI Virtual Annual Meeting
- 2020 FWO excellence prize; Joseph Maisin Excellence Prize in fundamental biomedical sciences, 5 yearly prize, awarded by H.R.M. The king of Belgium.
- 2018-2023 ERC Advanced grant, ERC, Asthma Crystal Clear, principal PI, 2.000 000 euro
- 2017 European Respiratory Society Asthma Gold Medal (lifetime excellence award in asthma research)
- 2016 Honorary Fellow of the European Respiratory Society: the FERS award recognizes lifetime excellence and contributions to research, education and clinical leadership in respiratory medicine
- 2014 The Francqui prize (highest scientific award across all disciplines in Belgium), awarded by HRM The King of Belgium.
- 2012-2016 ERC Consolidator Grant, ERC, Role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in dendritic cells and immune mediated lung diseases, Principal PI, 1 500 000 euro
- 2013 The Ariëns Award, Dutch Pharmacological Society (highest honor in pharmacology in The Netherlands
- 2013 The Karel Lodewijck Verleysen Prize, Academy of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
- 2010 The European Respiratory Society ‘Maurizio Vignola’ Research Award, Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 The Sabin Prize for Research on Vaccine Development, Benelux award, Belgium
- 2008 The Antoine Faes Foundation Prize, Subject class Clinical Immunology, Brussels, Belgium
- 2008 The Inbev-Baillet Latour Prize for Clinical Research in Belgium (highest clinical prize <45y in Belgium)
- 2008 The Flemish League against Cancer First endowed chair for Cancer Research, Belgium
- 2005 The European Respiratory Society ‘Romain Pauwels’ Research Award, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2005 Elected to “De Jonge Academie” of the Royal Dutch Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2004 The Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award (highest award in allergy worldwide)
- 2000 The Boehringer Ingelheim Award for Respiratory Medicine, Pulmonary Society Belgium
- 1998 Shering Plough Respiratory 2000 International Young Investigator Award, New York, USA
- 1998 European Respiratory Society Annual Allergy and Immunology award, ERS meeting, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1997 Horlait Dapsens Fellowship for extended study abroad.
- 1996 The GSK junior and senior Lecturer award (Belgian Society for Pulmonary Medicine)
