Lyon, 12–13 May 2011 Auditorium

Governing Council
Fifty-third Session
GC/53/17
10/05/2011
Lyon, 12–13 May 2011
Auditorium
APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
1.
In accordance with Article VI of the Statute and Resolution GC/49/R17, the term of office
of eight members of the Scientific Council, namely Dr Y.-J. Bang (Republic of Korea),
Dr M. Blettner (Germany), Dr H. Comber (Ireland), Dr G. Forni (Italy), Dr H. Grönberg
(Sweden), Dr E. Rivedal (Norway), Dr V. Shanta (India) and Dr D. Zaridze (Russian Federation)
will be completed with the 2011 meeting of the Governing Council.
2.
For the information of the Council, this leaves the following thirteen members still serving
on the Scientific Council: Dr I. Frazer, Dr K. Haustermans, Dr A. Markham, Dr H. Nakagama and
Dr M. Pollán Santamaria until 2012; Dr F. Demenais, Dr R. Gallagher and Dr G. Superti-Furga
until 2013; and Dr A. Anttila, Dr B. Borisch, Dr M. Melbye, Dr M. Smith and Dr P. van den Brandt
until 2014.
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 and Sweden.
Curricula vitae are attached*.
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*The curricula vitae will be distributed to Governing Council members only.
Governing Council
Appointment of new members of the Scientific Council
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GERMANY
INDIA
Dr Cornelia (Neli) Ulrich
National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT)
Heidelberg
Division of Preventive Oncology
German Cancer Research Center
69120 Heidelberg
Dr Praful B. Desai
307, Samudra Mahal
Mumbai 400 018
Field: Cancer prevention and epidemiology
Field: Surgical oncology
Dr Thangarajan Rajkumar
Department of Molecular Oncology
Cancer Institute (WIA)
Adya, Madras 600 020
Field: Molecular oncology
IRELAND
No nominee as of 9 May 2011
Field:
ITALY
Dr Luca Gianni
Director, Department of Medical Oncology
Fondazione Centro San Raffaele
del Monte Tabor
I 20132 Milan
Field: Clinical pharmacology
Dr Armando Santoro
Istituto Clinico Humanitas
I 20089 Rozzano (MI)
Field: Medical oncology and haematology
NORWAY
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Dr Inger Torhild Gram
Institute for Community Medicine
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø
Dr In-Hoo Kim
Head, Division of convergence technology
Research Institute
National Cancer Center
Seoul
Field: Etiology and prevention of cancer
Dr Lars J. Vatten
Department of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
Post box 8905
N-7491 Trondheim
Field:
Cancer
epidemiology,
perinatal
epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology
Field: Application of cancer biomarkers in early
detection and biotherapy
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Governing Council
Appointment of new members of the Scientific Council
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
SWEDEN
Dr Lev Berstein
Chief, Laboratory of Oncoendocrinology
N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology
St Petersburg 197758
Dr Paul W. Dickman
Department of Medical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics (MEB)
Karolinska Institutet
171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Field:
Endocrinology
carcinogenesis
and
hormonal
Field:
Development and application of
methods for population-based cancer survival
analysis. Statistical aspects of the design,
analysis and reporting of epidemiological
studies.