Education
M.D., PhD., Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Domaine de Rockefeller (1979)
Master 1 in statistics, Université Paris-Sud (1988-1989)
Master Bases Fondamentales de l'Oncogénèse, Université Paris VII Denis Diderot UFR Sciences du Vivant (1987-1988)
Awards
Prix Henry et Jeanne Mitjaville, Académie Nationale de Médecine (2013)
Hamilton Fairley Prize, European Society for Medical Oncology (2012)
Prix Lucien Tartois, 2010, Académie Nationale de Médecine (2010)
Memberships and affiliations
Director General of Centre Léon Bérard
Coordinator of the ERN EURACAN network
Scientific Director of AURAGEN, a genomics platform
Coordinator of Netsarc, the clinical reference network for sarcomas (a rare cancers expert center accredited by the French National Cancer Institute)
Former President of the EORTC, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
President of the French Sarcoma Group
Chairman of the CONTICANET and WORLD SARCOMA NETWORK networks
Co-head of the multidisciplinary tumor board for Sarcomas and GIST