Dr. Paul Bastard, Immunology Prize Recipient: Why Do People Die from COVID?

Dr. Paul Bastard of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Institut Imagine, INSERM & University of Paris, and The Rockefeller University, New York, received the Michelson Philanthropies & Science Grand Prize for his outstanding essay “Why do people die from COVID-19?: Autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons increase with age.”

Dr. Bastard hopes that his findings on the impairment of specific immune mechanisms in those who’ve suffered most from COVID-19 will pave the way for more broadly adopting precision medicine approaches for this disease and infectious diseases.