David Saadoun is Professor of Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine and clinical Immunology, of Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He heads the National Reference Centers for rare Autoimmune Systemic Diseases and for Autoinflammatory Diseases and amyloidosis. He is director of a research unit, INSERM U959, working on the immunopathogy and immunotherapy of human autoimmune diseases.