Marc Humbert

Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, is Dean and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Université Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. He is the Director of the Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine Department, French Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Centre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and the vice-coordinator of the European Reference Network for rare and low prevalence respiratory diseases (ERN-LUNG). He heads the Inserm University Paris-Saclay Joint Research Unit UMR_S 1358 (Pulmonary Hypertension: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Innovation). He is the Past President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal (2013-2017) and Section Editor in charge of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine. He has published more than 1,100 peer-reviewed articles (H index 190 Google Scholar, 145 WoS), mostly in the field of respiratory medicine with an emphasis in pulmonary hypertension and severe asthma. He is a Fellow of the ERS (FERS Foundation Fellow), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila (Bucarest, Romania). He has received several scientific distinctions including the 1997 François Brenot Award and the 2006 Cournand Lecture Award from the ERS, the 2009 Descartes-Huygens Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2016 Rare Disease Award of the Fondation de France (Fondation Eliane and Gérard Pauthier), the 2018 ERS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, the 2019 French Breath Foundation Excellence Award , and the 2020 American Heart Association’s 3CPR (Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation) Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2024 ERS Congress Chair Award (European Respiratory Society, Vienna), the Grand Prix of the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris Foundation (2025) and the Inserm Grand Prix (2025). Since 2014, Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics have listed Marc Humbert as one of the world's highly cited researchers in the field of Clinical Medicine.