Governing Council Fifty-seventh Session GC/57/16 11/05/2015 Lyon, 13–14 May 2015 Auditorium APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL 1. In accordance with Article VI of the Statute and Resolution GC/53/R19, the term of office of nine members of the Scientific Council, namely Drs Paul W. Dickman (Sweden), Luca Gianni (Italy), Inger Gram (Norway), Murat Gültekin (Turkey), In-Hoo Kim (Republic of Korea), Deirdre Murray (Ireland), Thangarajan Rajkumar (India), Sergei Tjulandin (Russian Federation) and Cornelia Ulrich (Germany) will be completed with the 2015 meeting of the Governing Council. 2. For the information of the Council, this leaves the following 15 members (four women and 11 men) still serving on the Scientific Council: Drs Nuria Aragonés (Spain), James Bishop (Australia), Nicholas Jones (UK), Christos Sotiriou (Belgium) and Teruhiko Yoshida (Japan) until 2016; Drs Al-Hareth M. Al-Khater (Qatar), Françoise Clavel-Chapelon (France), Lukas A. Huber (Austria), Luis Felipe Ribeiro Pinto (Brazil) and John J. Spinelli (Canada) until 2017; and Drs Stephen J. Chanock (USA), Ellen Kampman (The Netherlands), Ole Raaschou-Nielsen (Denmark), Martin Röösli (Switzerland) and Elisabete Weiderpass-Vainio (Finland) until 2018. 3. In accordance with Article VI.2 of the Agency’s Statute, the Governing Council is requested to select new members to be appointed to the Scientific Council from the attached list of experts, one each from Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Sweden and Turkey. Curricula vitae are attached*. __________ *The curricula vitae will be distributed to Governing Council members only. Governing Council Appointment of new members of the Scientific Council GC/57/16 Page 2 GERMANY INDIA Professor Jenny Chang-Claude Head, Unit of Genetic Epidemiology Deputy Head, Division of Cancer Epidemiology German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Professor Lalit Kumar Professor & Head of Medical Oncology Department of Medical Oncology All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi Field: Genetic epidemiology; breast, ovarian Field: Clinical oncology; bone marrow/stem and colorectal cancers cell transplantation; multiple myeloma; gynecological malignancies Professor Ravi Mehrotra Director, Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology (ICMR) Department of Health Research (Government of India), Noida Field: Early diagnosis and cancer screening; molecular pathology IRELAND ITALY Dr Jerome Coffey Interim Director National Cancer Control Programme Dublin Dr Pietro Comba Head, Unit of Environmental Epidemiology Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome Field: The management of breast and epidemiology urological cancers, especially testicular germ cell tumours and prostate Field: Environmental and occupational Dr Eugenia Dogliotti Head, Unit of Molecular Epidemiology Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome Field: Mechanisms of DNA repair and mutagenesis; molecular cancer epidemiology NORWAY REPUBLIC OF KOREA Professor Giske Ursin Director, Cancer Registry of Norway P.O. box 5313 Majorstuen N-0304 Oslo Dr Duk-Hyoung Lee Director, National Cancer Control Institute National Cancer Center Korea Seoul Field: Cancer registration; cancer Field: Cancer prevention and control; cancer surveillance epidemiology; nutritional epidemiology; gene-environment interactions GC/57/16 Page 3 Governing Council Appointment of new members of the Scientific Council RUSSIAN FEDERATION SWEDEN Professor Boris Ya. Alekseev Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs Federal Medical Research Centre named after P.A. Gertsen Moscow Professor Jonas Bergh Professor of Oncology Karolinska Institutet Byggnad Z1:01 Solna 171 76 Stockholm Field: Clinical oncology; cancer biomarkers; Field: Clinical oncology; cancer biomarkers; urology TURKEY Professor Ismail Celik Professor of Oncology Hacettepe University Cancer Institute Ankara Field: Clinical oncology; targeted cancer therapy; tobacco control Professor Mutlu Hayran Department of Preventive Oncology Hacettepe University Cancer Institute Ankara Field: Cancer epidemiology; prevention; cancer clinical trials cancer breast cancer