Paul Bastard, MD-PhD, is currently working in the Pediatric Hematology and Immunology department of Necker Hospital for Sick Children (AP-HP, Paris, France), while also doing research the laboratory of Human Genetics of infectious diseases, at the Imagine Institute (University of Paris Cité, INSERM) and the Rockefeller University (New York, USA).

From 2020 onwards, he identified the role of auto-Abs to type I IFNs in the pathogenesis of more than 15% of cases of life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia, and in several other severe viral diseases.

His research currently focuses on the causes and consequences of autoantibodies against type I interferons and on the genetic determinants of myasthenia gravis.  

His publications can be found at:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bastard+P