ProfessorMarc-Emmanuel Dumas, FRSB, FRSC

Marc-Emmanuel Dumas holds Imperial's Chair in Systems Medicine and is Head of the Division of Systems Medicine in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction. He is director of Imperial's Microbiome Network, a cross-faculty multidisciplinary network of excellence, made of >60 PIs and their groups to provide a unique focal point for research, teaching and public engagement activities around the microbiome at Imperial. He is a CNRS Director of Research and group leader at U1283/UMR8199 at the European Genomic Institute for Diabetes in Lille, France and leads the Imperial-University of Lille-CNRS International Research Project in Integrative Metabolism which was launched in 2023. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at McGill University's Genome Innovation Centre and Department of Human Genetics in Montréal, Canada.

His research focusses on the metabolome in cardiometabolic diseases to better understand the key challenges in the integrative control of metabolism, blending genomics and microbiomics in systems medicine. His main research interest focusses on the role of the microbiome and its metabolic output (but is not limited to) in metabolic and cardiorespiratory diseases as well as in chronic inflammation, including neuroinflammation, and certain types of cancers. His group focusses on integrative metabolism, using metabolomics to identify novel markers and dissect their mechanisms in metabolic and cardiorespiratory conditions, and chronic inflammation, including neuroinflammation.