Meeting of the SIRIC Scientific Advisory Board

Since its inception, SIRIC has benefited from the support of a scientific council composed of internationally renowned experts. Each year, this council issues recommendations for the implementation of SIRIC's scientific program, its cross-functional initiatives, and its strategic direction. These meetings provide an important opportunity to assess SIRIC's progress and identify new opportunities to accelerate research for the benefit of patients.

The council has been chaired since it's creation by Professor Steven Chanock.

The members of the council are : 

• Stephen Chanock, MD
  National Cancer Institute, Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
  Bethesda, Maryland, US
• Jean-Pierre Delord, PhD
  General Director, IUCT Oncopole
  Toulouse, France
• Luca Gianni, MD
  Director of the Department of Medical Oncology and the head of the Project of Development of New Drugs and Innovative Therapies in Solid Tumours at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy
• Ilaria Malanchi, PhD
  Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute
  London, UK
• Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD
  Director of the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy and Professor of Immunology, Université de Navarre
  Pampelune, Spain
• Galina Velikova
  Consultant in Medical Oncology and a Professor at the Univeristy of Leeds, UK
• Jessica Zucman-Rossi, MD, PhD
  PUPH Université Paris Cité-HEGP/APHP, Director of the Cordeliers Research Centre Paris, France