Francesco Bonella, M.D., Ph.D

Dr. Francesco Bonella is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease at the Ruhrlandklinik University Hospital in Essen, Germany. His research spans sarcoidosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), autoimmune interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) with a particular focus on biomarkers, genetic predisposition, and applications of bronchoalveolar lavage. He has served as an investigator on major clinical trials in IPF, sarcoidosis and PAP.

Dr. Bonella sits on the editorial boards of the European Respiratory Journal and Chest, serves as an Associate Editor of Respirology, and is Editor in Chief of Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. He has been actively involved with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) since 2014 and currently serves on the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Program Committee. In 2010, he founded EuPAPNet, the European Network for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and he currently coordinates the Sarcoidosis Core Network within the European Reference Network ERN-LUNG.