Anne Cambon-Thomsen
CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Dr. Anne Cambon-Thomsen is Honorary Research Director of CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and works in association with the Epidemiology and Public Health Unit at Inserm and University of Toulouse. She is a medical doctor who has specialized in immunogenetics and holds degrees in biology, medical statistics, and health ethics. Dr. Cambon-Thomsen has led research on the societal dimensions of biotechnology and the public health implications of genomics, with a focus on biobanks, genetic testing in complex disease genetics, and data sharing.
Previously, she directed two research units (at Inserm on Immunology and human immunogenetics and at CNRS) on human population genetics and human immunopathology; she also created the Toulouse genopole Sociatl platform, co-directed the Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues (ELSI) service of BBMRI-ERIC, the European Biobanking infrastruture and launched the international BRIF initiative to advance data and sample sharing, which then continued as an interest group of the research data alliance (RDA). She also served on the French National bioethics advisory committee (CCNE) and the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, chaired the deontology and ethics committee of the French National Cancer Institute, and co-led the ethics working group of France’s National Plan for Genomic Medicine 2025. She was also an ambassador for the Research Data Alliance and has held leadership roles in numerous European and international ethics and research bodies.