Michel Goldman

Michel Goldman, MD, PhD, is the founder and the President of the I³h Institute and Professor of Immunology and Pharmacotherapy at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He was the Executive Director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he served as Head of the Department of Immunology at Erasme Hospital and was the first Director of the Institute for Medical Immunology (ULB).

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Michel Goldman, MD, PhD, is the Founding President of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in healthcare at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Frontiers in Medicine and was the first Executive Director of the European Innovative Medicines Initiative from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium and of the National Academy of Pharmacy in France.

 

Author of over 450 scientific publications in the fields of clinical medicine and immunology, he now works with Belgian and French economists on issues of innovation and access to medicines. He is the author of the book "La médecine d'après, leçons du Covid-19", published by the Académie Royale de Belgique, and edited the collective work "Les vaccins, ce que tu dois savoir".

 

Michel Goldman is a laureate of the Lucien Steinberg Prize (shared with Pr. Peter Piot, 1997), of the Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research (2000), and of the Spinoza chair at the University of Amsterdam (2001). In 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Université of Lille. In 2024, Michel Goldman was the recipient of the Blaise Pascal Medal for Medicine and Life Sciences awarded by the European Academy of Sciences.