Professor Jorge Boczkowski

Academic discipline: Health

Jorge Boczkowski is Professor in Respiratory Medicine at the Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), and former Director of the Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB, UMR 955 Inserm – UPEC). His research examines the respiratory consequences of exposure to environmental contaminants, notably cigarette smoke and manufactured nanoparticles. Jorge Boczkowski has been coordinator of several research programs in environmental toxicology and has participated in various scientific and expert bodies (CSS 6 Inserm, IReSP “Nanomaterials” Working Group, Scientific Commission of the INERIS Chronic Risks Department, etc).

He was Visiting Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) between 2015 and 2020 and member of the Ethics and Regulatoiry Committee of the “2D-Health” graphene research program at the University of Manchester (UK) between 2017 and 2023. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort and has served as an assessor on the Scientific Advisory Board of UPEC (biology and health field) and as a HCERES delegate. He has filed 3 patents and is the author of more 160 publications in peer-reviewed journals.