Guido Kroemer

Full Professor

Guido Kroemer is currently Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris-Cité, Director of the research team "Metabolism, Cancer and Immunity" of the French Medical Research Council (INSERM), Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology platforms of the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Hospital Practitioner at the Hôpital Européen George Pompidou, Paris, France.

Dr. Kroemer’s work focuses on the pathophysiological implications of cell stress and death in the context of aging, cancer and inflammation. He discovered the ignition of regulated cell death pathways by mitochondrial membrane permeabilization, the cytoprotective and antiaging effects of macroautophagy, as well as the decisive role of immunogenic cell death in anticancer treatments.

With over 1730 articles including 72 in the ‘CNS’ journals Cell (16 papers), Nature (6), Nature Medicine (24), Science (18) and Science Translational Medicine (8) and an h-index of 303, he is worldwide most cited researcher in Biology and Biochemistry (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/biology-and-biochemistry). Kroemer is the founding Editor-in-Chief of six journals: Cell Death & Disease, Cell Stress, Geromedicine, OncoImmunology, Microbial Cell, and Molecular & Cellular Oncology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Immunology.

Dr. Kroemer is member of the Academia Europaea, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), European Academy of Engineering (EAE), European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS), European Academy of Sciences (EAS), European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. He is the Founding President of the European Academy of Tumor Immunology (EATI).

Dr. Kroemer’s contributions have been recognized with multiple awards including the most prestigious cancer research prizes from Belgium (Baillet-Latour Health Prize), France (Prix Duquesne, Prix Léopold Griffuel, Grand Prix Ruban Rose) and Switzerland (Brupbacher Prize), the European Union-sponsored Descartes Prize, as well as the most important Italian science prize (Lombardia & Ricerca Prize).