Lyon, 13–14 May 2015 Auditorium

Governing Council GC/57/16
Fifty-seventh Session 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*.
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*The
curricula vitae will be distributed to Governing Council members only.

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GERMANY
Professor Jenny Chang-Claude
Head, Unit of Genetic Epidemiology
Deputy Head, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ),
Heidelberg
Field:
Genetic epidemiology; breast, ovarian
and colorectal cancers
INDIA
Professor Lalit Kumar
Professor & Head of Medical Oncology
Department of Medical Oncology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
New Delhi
Field:
Clinical oncology; bone marrow/stem
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
Dr Jerome Coffey
Interim Director
National Cancer Control Programme
Dublin
Field:
The management of breast and
urological cancers, especially testicular germ
cell tumours and prostate
ITALY
Dr Pietro Comba
Head, Unit of Environmental Epidemiology
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Field:
Environmental and occupational
epidemiology
Dr Eugenia Dogliotti
Head, Unit of Molecular Epidemiology
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Field:
Mechanisms of DNA repair and
mutagenesis; molecular cancer epidemiology
NORWAY
Professor Giske Ursin
Director, Cancer Registry of Norway
P.O. box 5313 Majorstuen
N-0304 Oslo
Field:
Cancer registration; cancer
epidemiology; nutritional epidemiology;
gene-environment interactions
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Dr Duk-Hyoung Lee
Director, National Cancer Control Institute
National Cancer Center Korea
Seoul
Field:
Cancer prevention and control; cancer
surveillance

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Professor Boris Ya. Alekseev
Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs
Federal Medical Research Centre named after
P.A. Gertsen
Moscow
Field:
Clinical oncology; cancer biomarkers;
urology
SWEDEN
Professor Jonas Bergh
Professor of Oncology
Karolinska Institutet
Byggnad Z1:01
Solna 171 76 Stockholm
Field: Clinical oncology; cancer biomarkers;
breast cancer
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; cancer
prevention; cancer clinical trials