Jean-Marc Cavaillon Dr.Sc.
Course and current status
Jean-Marc Cavaillon (Dr.Sc. 1980, University of Paris VI) was professor at Institut Pasteur (Paris) and head of the Unit "Cytokines & Inflammation" (2001-2017). He is now honorary professor of Institu Pasteur. From 2019 to 2020 he has been scientifc officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR) in charge of the antibioresistance priority research program and COVID-19 calls.
At Institut Pasteur, he has been Director of "General Immunology Course" (1997-2002), Scientific Director of "Euroconferences" (2002-2006), and director of the Department "Infection and Epidemiology (2006-2009). He was co-director of the course "Innate immunity and infectious Diseases" (2017-2021).
He has been President (1998 – 2000) of the "International Endotoxin Society" (now "International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society") and of the "European Shock Society" (2016-2018)
He was Senior Associate Editor (Europe) of "Shock" and member of the Editorial Boards of "Innate Immunity", "European Cytokine Network”, "Journal of Infectious Diseases", "American Journal of Surgery", "The Open Critical Care Medicine Journal", "The Open Immunology Journal", "Journal of Medical Sciences" (Taiwan), Jpurnal of Reanimatology (Russia), “Romanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology”, "International Journal of Inflammation", Frontiers in Immunology, scientific Reports and Journal of Intensive Medicine. He has been Associate-Editor of "Cytokine" (2002-2009).
He has been expert for numerous research agencies (Germany, Belgium, Canada, Nederlands, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Czech Republic, Singapore).
He has been teaching innate immunty in French Universities and abroad (Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, China, Lebanon, Uruguay, Romania, Hong-Kong, Algeria, South-Korea, Italy, Estonia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Peru, Sweden, Canada, Cambodia and India).
Prof. Jean-Marc Cavaillon has published 171 scientific articles, 139 reviews and 60 chapters in books on infection, innate immunity and septic shock (h-index Google Scholar = 91). He was the author of the first book in French on cytokines (1993). He is also the co-author of books: "Sepsis and non-infectious inflammation: from biology to critical care" (2008); "Inflammation from molecular and cellular mechanisms to the clinic" (2018 - 8 volumes; 1746 pages); and also wrote popular science books "La flamme salvatrice. Il était une fois l’inflammation" (2017) and "Le mauvais air – Il était une fois les infections et les combattants de l’ombre." (2022).
He is Honorary member of the "Association des Anciens élèves de l’Institut Pasteur" (2006) ; Honorary Lifetime Member of the “International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society” (2014) ; Honorary Member of the European Shock Society (2025) ; and Associate Member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy (2025). He is Knight of the Legion of Honour (2013). He has been the recipient of the Sheldon Greisman Award (IEIIS) (2012) and the Cátedra “Dr. Jesús Kumate Rodríguez” (University of Guadalajara, Mexico) (2008)
Scientific summary
Prof. Jean-Marc Cavaillon has an extensive expertise in innate immunity, particularly on cytokines, inflammation, bacterial endotoxins and other Toll-like receptors agonists, endotoxin tolerance, activation of monocytes/macrophages and neutrophils, altered immune status in sepsis and SIRS patients, and cytokine production in cystic fibrosis. He was also among the very first to work on cytokines at Institut Pasteur. He wrote the first book in French on cytokines (1993, re-edition 1996), and a chapter on cytokines in the "Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine" in 16 volumes (2005). He initiated his biomedical research some twenty years ago, particularly in the field of sepsis and systemic inflammation.
