Orientation Session for Scientific Council members
Tuesday 28 January 2014 (14:15–17:30)1
IARC, Lyon, France
John Higginson Hall (Room 1110)
AGENDA
Item
14:15 Introduction and o
verview of IARC structure and
processes C.P. Wild, Director
15:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
Ground floor of Tower building together with IMO & MPA
Reviewers
15:30 Visits to Sections (see schedule below)*
17:00 Feed-back from participants and general discussion Ed Seleiro,
Scientific Officer
17:30 Closure of the meeting
* Visits will not be offered to IMO and MPA due to the review process occurring in parallel.
IARC Sections:
Cancer Information (CIN), Head, Dr David Forman
IARC Monographs (IMO), Head, Dr Kurt Straif
Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis (MCA), Head, Dr Zdenko Herceg
Molecular Pathology (MPA), Head, Dr Hiroko Ohgaki
Infections (INF), Head, Dr Massimo Tommasino
Environment and Radiation (ENV), Head, Dr Joachim Schüz
Nutrition and Metabolism (NME), Head, Dr Isabelle Romieu
Genetics (GEN), Head, Dr Paul Brennan
Early Detection and Prevention (EDP), Head, Dr Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
1 NB: New Scientific Council members (Drs Al-Hareth M. Al-Khater, Qatar; Françoise Clavel-Chapelon,
France; Lukas A. Huber, Austria; Luis Felipe Ribeiro Pinto, Brazil and John Spinelli, Canada) have been
offered the possibility to come to IARC for a full day on 28 January 2014 to enable them to have more
than the two visits planned during the Orientation Session.