Bart N. Lambrecht obtained the MD/PhD degree at the University of Ghent, Belgium; thereafter he moved to The Netherlands where he trained in Pulmonary Medicine. He became Professor of Pulmonary Medicine in 2005, holding a special chair in Immunopathology of the Lung at the pulmonary research program of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After ten years in The Netherlands, he moved back to Belgium and was appointed Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at Ghent University, and is currently heading a group dealing with the immunopathology of asthma and immunotherapy of cancer. He is the author of over 100 papers dealing with the use of mouse models to study the pathogenesis of asthma and cancer related immunosuppression. He has received several awards, among which the Odysseus Grant of the Flemish government, The Inbev-Baillet Latour Prize for Clinical Research, The Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award 2004, The NWO Vidi scholarship, The Schering Plough Respiratory 2000 Award, and the 1998 European Respiratory Society Annual Allergy and Immunology award. He is a Young Academy member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), advisory editor of The Journal of Experimental Medicine and associate editor of Mucosal Immunology.