GC/51/19

ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LE CANCER
Governing Council GC/51/19
Fifty-first Session 28/04/2009
Lyon, 14–15 May 2009
Auditorium
APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
1. In accordance with Article VI.4 of the Statute and Resolutions GC/47/R12 and
GC/49/R17, the term of office of two members of the Scientific Council, namely
Dr J. Siemiatycki (Canada) and Dr F. Demenais (France) will be completed with the 2009
meeting of the Governing Council.
2. For the information of the Council, this leaves the following eighteen members still
serving on the Scientific Council: Dr R. Herrmann, Dr K. Husgafvel-Pursiainen,
Dr B. Kiemeney, Dr T. Orntøft and Dr E. Ron until 2010; Dr Y.-J. Bang, Dr M. Blettner,
Dr H. Comber, Dr G. Forni, Dr H. Grönberg, Dr E. Rivedal, Dr V. Shanta and
Dr D. Zaridze until 2011; and Dr I. Frazer, Dr K. Haustermans, Dr A. Markham,
Dr H. Nakagama and Dr M. Pollán Santamaria until 2012.
3. Austria who joined IARC in May 2008 was requested to propose up to two
candidates for the appointment of one of them to the Scientific Council.
4. 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 Austria, Canada and France.
Curricula vitae are attached*.
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*The curricula vitae will be distributed to Governing Council members only.

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GC/51/19 Appointment of new members of the Scientific Council
AUSTRIA
Dr Giulio Superti-Furga
Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Lazarettgasse 19
1090 Vienna, Austria
Field: molecular medicine
Dr Lukas A. Huber
Biocenter
Division of Cell Biology
Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck A-6020, Austria
Field: spatio-temporal regulation of signal
transduction through scaffold complexes
and their subcellular localization,
proteomics, mouse genetics
CANADA
Dr Richard Gallagher
BC Cancer Agency
Cancer Control Research
675 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada
Field: cancer prevention, health care and
epidemiology
Dr John Ross McLaughlin
Cancer Care Ontario
620 University Avenue (#1611)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G2L7
Field: epidemiology and statistics
FRANCE
Dr Florence Demenais
INSERM U794
Genetic Epidemiology of Multifactorial
Diseases
Fondation Jean Dausset/CEPH
27 rue Juliette Dodu
F 75010 Paris
Field: statistical genetics (development of
methods and study of their statistical
properties). Genetic epidemiology of
multifactorial diseases: diabetes, infectious
diseases, asthma, cancers