Thomas Baumert

Thomas Baumert is the founder of Alentis. Thomas is Professor of Medicine and Chair, Head of the Inserm Research Institute for Viral and Liver Diseases (IVH, Inserm U1110), Director of the Laboratory of Excellence HEPSYS at the University of Strasbourg and Hepatologist at the Center for Liver and Digestive Disease at the Strasbourg University Hospitals. Thomas brings 25+ years of internationally recognized unique R&D experience in liver disease and cancer.

Following his doctoral thesis at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and his internship at the University of Munich, Thomas was a Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Liver Diseases Branch at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. He subsequently joined the Department of Medicine at the University Hospital in Freiburg, Germany to become a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist, attending physician, Lab Head, Associate Professor and department Deputy Head. He then relocated to the University of Strasbourg in France as full Professor of Medicine and Chair to head a newly created Inserm research unit on virus-host interactions and liver disease and establish a highly recognized program in translational hepatology. He also spent a sabbatical as a research scholar at the BROAD Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

The understanding of the molecular mechanisms of liver disease biology has allowed his laboratory to uncover novel strategies for the treatment of chronic liver disease and cancer. Thomas’ work has been recognized with several awards such as the Hans Popper Young Investigator Award, the Chair of Excellence Award of the French National Research Agency, and the Prix Galien and the Mémain-Pelletier Award of the French Academy of Science. He has received several European Research Council (ERC) awards for the discovery and development of novel approaches to treat chronic liver disease and cancer. He has published 400+ articles in peer-reviewed high-impact journals including Nature and N. Engl. J. Med. and is an inventor of several patent applications. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hepatology – the leading liver journal worldwide and serves as an editorial board member of several other high-impact journals. He is a member of the EASL, AASLD, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and American Association of Physicians (AAP).

Thomas holds an M.D. from the University of Heidelberg and is a board-certified and licensed internist and gastroenterologist.