Lyon, 15–16 May 2014 Auditorium

Governing Council GC/56/19
Fifty-sixth Session 29/04/2014
Lyon, 15–16 May 2014
Auditorium
APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
1. In accordance with Article VI of the Statute and Resolution GC/52/R17, the term of office
of five members of the Scientific Council, namely Drs Ahti Anttila (Finland), Bettina Borisch
(Switzerland), Mads Melbye (Denmark), Martyn Smith (USA) and Piet van den Brandt
(Netherlands) will be completed with the 2014 meeting of the Governing Council.
2. For the information of the Council, this leaves the following 19 members still serving on
the Scientific Council: Drs Paul 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) until 2015; Drs Nuria Aragonés (Spain), James Bishop (Australia), Nicholas Jones
(UK), Christos Sotiriou (Belgium) and Teruhiko Yoshida (Japan) until 2016; and 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.
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 Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA.
Curricula vitae are attached*.
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*The
curricula vitae will be distributed to Governing Council members only.

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DENMARK
Dr Henrik Hjalgrim
Department of Epidemiology Research
Statens Serum Institut
Copenhagen
Field:
Cancer epidemiology; haematological
malignancies, notably lymphomas
; transfusion
medicine.
Dr Ole Raaschou-Nielsen
Danish Cancer Society
Department of Work, Environment and Cancer
Copenhagen
Field:
Epidemiology; cancer, environment;
exposure assessment; air pollution and health,
especially cancer using a molecular
epidemiological approach.
FINLAND
Dr Janne Mikael Pitkäniemi
Leading Statistician
Finnish Cancer Registry
Helsinki
Field:
Biostatistics; epidemiology; statistical
methods in genetic
epidemiology; cancer
registration.
Professor Elisabete Weiderpass-Vainio
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Tampere University
Field:
Cancer epidemiology.
THE NETHERLANDS
Professor Ellen Kampman
Professor in Diet and Cancer
Wageningen
University and Free University
Amsterdam
Division of Human Nutrition
Wageningen
Field: Human nutrition; multifactorial causes
of cancer, including diet and genetic
susceptibility.
SWITZERLAND
Dr Martin Röösli
Head of the Environmental Exposures and
Health Unit
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute,
Basel
Field: Environmental epidemiology, including
exposure assessment, etiological research and
health risk assessments.
USA
Dr Stephen J. Chanock
Director
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Field:
Genetics; cancer epidemiology.