Professor Paul Henri Lambert

Chairman

 

Professor Lambert is Emeritus professor at the Department of Pathology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and is involved in its Centre of Vaccinology. He chairs the Steering Committee of the European Research Consortium for new tuberculosis vaccines and directs the International Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC) organized under the auspices by Fondation Merieux and the University of Geneva.

He was previously at the World Health Organization as head of Immunology Research and Training Program, head of Microbiology and Immunology and latterly head of Vaccine Research and Development for the Global Program of Vaccines and Immunization. Prior to his work at the WHO, he was head of a research unit at the University of Geneva Medical School where he became Professor of the Department of Medicine. He previously worked with Frank Dixon at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California. He trained as an MD at the University of Liege, Belgium.

He is author or co-author of over 400 publications, a member of several international scientific boards, foreign member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.