Thierry Facon
Thierry Facon, MD, is Professor of Haematology in the Department of Haematology, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France, a position he has held since 2000. He currently serves as President of the French Society of Hematology (2021-2025) and is a Member of the French Academy of Medicine (Académie Nationale de Médecine). Professor Facon was President of the IFM from 2003 to 2006 and has presented at many international congresses. He co-organized the XIIIth IMW in Paris in 2011. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Leukemia and is a founding member of the FFRMG, whose main objective is to enable scientists and students to carry out research programs in host laboratories in France or abroad. He is a co-organizer of the COMy congress and a member of the ESH board. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, China since 2015 and received the Saint Antoine EBMT Achievement Award in 2017. He received the Robert Kyle Career Achievement Award in 2020. He is the author and co-author of a number of articles and has published his work in various prestigious international journals including, as first or senior author, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine.