People
Peter Boyle
President
Peter Boyle was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated BSc, PhD and DSc (Med) from the University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science. He was elected Honorary Member of the Academy of Science of Hungary and a Member of the European Cancer Academy. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of Order of Merit of Republic of Poland for services to Public Health (2000) and has been awarded with Honorary Membership of several scientific societies and holds Honorary Professorships at several prestigious Universities. In 2013 he was appointed as Professor at Strathclyde University. He has contributed to the fields of tobacco and lung cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.
VP Population Research Philippe Autier was born in Brussels, Belgium, and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a diploma in tropical medicine from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp in 1983. He started his professional life by joining the humanitarian non-governmental organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where…
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Chief Technology Officer Michel Smans was born in Brussels, Belgium, and received a Master’s Degree of Mathematics from the University of Namur. After two years working as Research Assistant to Professor E. Schifflers, he joined the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon and started to transpose advanced mathematical techniques to descriptive epidemiology. He…
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Research Director Patrick Mullie was born in Mouscron, Belgium, and graduated in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University College of Leuven and in Epidemiology and Applied Statistics at the University of Maastricht. He subsequently obtained a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Catholic University of Leuven. Patrick Mullie’s main research activities focus on nutritional epidemiology,…
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Maria Bota is a biostatistician at iPRI. She obtained an engineering diploma (Master in Science and Technology) in Bioinformatics and Modelling in 2009, from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France. In 2010 she joined the iPRI team as a Research Officer, specialising in epidemiology and biostatistics applied to a series of public health…
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Alice Koechlin grew up in Saint-Étienne, France, and graduated in Bioinformatics and Modelling at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Lyon in 2010, obtaining an engineering diploma (Master in Science and Technology). She undertook her end of curriculum internships in international and multidisciplinary environments at the International Agency for Research on Cancer and at…
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Cécile Pizot was born in Lyon, France. She graduated from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon (France) in 2011, obtaining an engineering diploma (Master in Science and Technology) in Bioinformatics and Modelling. During her studies, she undertook several academic and industry-based research internships in multidisciplinary environments including the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics team of…
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Alina Macacu was born in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated in 2010 from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon, France, with an engineer’s degree and an MSc in Bioinformatics and Modelling. In 2014, she obtained a PhD in Models, Methods and Algorithms in Biology, Health and Environment from the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble,…
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Miruna Dragomir was born in Brasov, Romania. After her high school diploma in Romania, she graduated from INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) in Lyon, obtaining an engineering degree (Master in Science and Technology) in Bioinformatics and Modelling (2014). During her studies, she undertook several research internships in interdisciplinary and international environments such as BioMerieux…
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Alina Blaj was born in Romania and studied bank finance at Babes Bolyai University at Cluj Napoca in Romania. In 2010 she received a Masters Degree in Management from Lyon 2 University. After working as a financial manager in Lyon for one year, volunteered for V.I.E (Volontariat International en Entreprise) for the French Economic Mission…
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Chloé Leao was born in Chambéry, France. She graduated with a Bachelor in management of tourism business. During her study, she worked in Megève, France in a five-star hotel where she learned the keys of hotel industry. After her degree she came to Lyon and started working at the Marriott Hotel as receptionist and then…
Read MoreiPRI believes that all study subjects, no matter their background, have the right to the same level of protection. This is particularly important given the international dimension of all iPRI projects, often including countries with less developed ethics guidelines and practices. iPRI has established an International Governance and Ethics Committee to have all research studies which involve human subjects or data reviewed. Our Committee Members come from around the world:
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Clement Adebamowo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and graduated BM ChB Hons from the University of Jos, Nigeria, having earned a distinction at every examination. He trained in Surgery and Oncology at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria and at Harvard University where he earned a DSc. He is a Fellow of the West African College…
Adil Aljarrah, graduated from the University la-Sapienza with honours. He completed his general surgery and breast surgery residency in Scotland obtaining a fellowship in general surgery FRCS (Glasgow) and FRCSI (Ireland). Adil then started intensive research in breast cancer epidemiology at Edinburgh Breast Unit and the University of Edinburgh obtaining a postgraduate MD from Edinburgh University. He then…
Otis Brawley is a graduate of University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case-Western Reserve University, and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. As the chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society,…
Paul Burton qualified in Medicine from the University of Leicester in 1983, taking an intercalated BSc in Genetics (supervised by Barry Holland) in 1981. As an MRC Training Fellow (1986-1989), he was awarded an MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene (1988). His MD (supervisors David Clayton and John Walls) focused on…
Naftali Busakhala is the founder and chairman of the department of Hematology and Oncology at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, the teaching hospital for Moi University in Nairobi. Under his leadership, the department has expanded rapidly from about 50 patient visits to over 8000 patient visits per year. Collaborations have been formed with Indiana University,…
Mark Clanton served as the principal Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health in 2006, under NCI Director Andrew von Eschenbach. His duties included providing senior executive oversight of the NCI Cancer Center Core Grant Program. The Director and staff of the Office of Cancer Centers reported to him during this…
Giovanni Corrao became research assistant at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turin, in 1984, where he was until 1988. In 1988 he was upgraded as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of L’Aquila, where he stayed until 1993. He is currently Full Professor in Medical Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca. Prof. Corrao is currently…
Senior Researcher Maria Paula Curado received a Doctor of Medicine degree and a PhD degree from the University of Goias. From 1990 to 2006 she held the position of Director of the Goiania Population-Based Cancer Registry in Brazil. This registry was able to produce data in order to be included by the International Agency for…
iPRI would like to welcome our most recent Senior Research Fellow, Professor Mamadou Diop. Professor Mamadou Diop received his Doctorate Degree in Medicine in 1993 at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar in Senegal. From January 1989 to December 1992 he was in intern in different surgical departments of the Dakar University Teaching Hospitals. After…
Jean-François Doré was born in 1940 in Fécamp, France, graduated LSc Nat from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris, and obtained a Doctorate in Human Biology (Experimental Oncology) from the Faculty of Medicine, University Paris XI. He joined INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), and worked in Villejuif (Institute of Cancerology…
Mark Dumenil was born in London and moved to France in 1981 and directing his career towards supporting the introduction across Europe of innovative medical devices technology that make a difference to patients’ lives. With nearly 30 years’ experience in a variety of international leadership roles at CR Bard Inc. Johnson and Johnson Inc. and…
Kenneth Fleming has been an academic pathologist for over 40 years. His research interests include the pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, and the molecular analysis of tissue – over 200 publications and a H-index of 48. Dr Fleming has had several major leadership positions in academic medicine, including appointment as the inaugural Head of the…
Elizabeth Fontham is the Founding Dean and Professor of Epidemiology Emeritus at Louisiana State University (LSUHSC) School of Public Health and Professor of Pathology in the LSU School of Medicine having joined the faculty of LSUHSC in 1980. Dr. Fontham’s major area of research is cancer epidemiology, with a particular interest in tobacco and nutrition-related…
iPRI would like to welcome our most recent Senior Research Fellow, Professor David Galloway. David Galloway is the President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He studied at the University of Glasgow where he graduated in Medicine in 1977. His early postgraduate training was focused in the West of Scotland and after…
Donato Greco was born in Naples, Italy, and graduated in medicine with a specialisation in infectious diseases, public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics. He started his career with nine years in infectious diseases, then founded and later directed the National Centre for Epidemiology of the National Institute of Health of Italy, where he served for 32…
André-Robert Grivegnée is Head of the Cancer Prevention and Screening Clinic at Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels. As a radiologist, he is Head of the Senology Unit in the same Institution. He is Professor at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles). He is involved in Breast Screening Programs in Belgium and at the European…
Romualdas Gurevicius was born in Plunge, Lithuania and in 1974 graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University receiving a diploma of Public Health and Epidemiology. At the same year he started as research fellow at the Lithuanian Cancer Research Institute and subsequently became head of the Cancer Control Department, Head of the Lithuanian…
Research Director Pierre Hainaut was born and educated in Belgium. He obtained an Msc in Science in 1980 and a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1987 from the University of Liège. From 1987 to 1994, he has been held postdoctoral positions in France (INSERM) and in the UK (University of Cambridge, University of York). Most…
Geoffrey Hamilton-Fairley is Vice Chairman of Oncimmune plc a company pioneering tests to measure the immune response to cancer in order to enable early cancer detection and to aid therapeutics. Over the past fourteen years Geoffrey has guided Oncimmune from a Nottingham University start-up through to a public company. Establishing a proprietary operation in the…
Peter Johnstone was raised in Gresham, Oregon. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1979, completing a Master of Arts degree in Communication from Oklahoma University in 1985 and an M.D. degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1989. He completed Residency in Radiation Oncology
Michel Jourlin was born in Saint-Etienne, France, and graduated in Mathematics at the University of Lyon 1. After a PhD in Pure Mathematics, he turned his research towards Image Processing. His most important contribution is the development of the LIP (Logarithmic Image Processing) Model, which offers a particularly efficient framework for Biomedical and Industrial Image…
Dan Krewski is currently Scientific Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa, and Professor in the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He holds a Natural Research Council of Canada Research Chair in Risk Science, focusing on risk assessment and management of a wide range…
Carlo La Vecchia received his medical degree from the University of Milan and a master of science degree in clinical epidemiology from Oxford University. He is recognized worldwide as a leading authority in cancer aetiology and epidemiology. Presently, he is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine at the University of Milan.…
Research Director Irene Leigh was born and educated in Liverpool. She obtained her undergraduate medical training and intercalated BSc (Hons) in Anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College and specialised in dermatology at postgraduate level. She spent two years as a lecturer in medicine at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, before returning to…
Bernard Levin earned his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa. He held academic appointments in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago and then served as Chair of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Digestive Diseases at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre…
Julian Little has been a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (Director 2006-2016) at the University of Ottawa since 2004. He currently holds a Distinguished Research Chair in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control, is a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (2017-2020) and is an IUSS-Ferrara 1391 Copernicus…
Albert Lowenfels, a graduate of New York University College of Medicine has been a faculty member of New York Medical College for several decades. Initially trained as a surgeon, he has pursued a second career in epidemiology with a focus on the relationship between benign and malignant disease.. His special areas of interest as represented…
Melinda Magyari was born in Transylvania.She did her undergraduate medical training at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. She moved to Denmark and graduated in medicine at University of Southern Denmark in 1999. After completing her specialist training in neurology in 2008 she obtained PhD degree at University of Copenhagen in 2014. Currently she is the…
Donald Mattison continues his distinguished career in medicine and public health. In 2012 he was concurrently appointed Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Risk Sciences International, and Associate Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. In 2013 he was also appointed Medical…
Jean-Claude Mbanya is Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Director Biotechnology Center and Coordinator Doctoral School of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1 and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology & Diabetes, at the University of Technology, He is also Consultant Physician…
William R. Miller is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom. He completed his BSc and PhD degrees at the University of Leeds before receiving a DSc from the University of Edinburgh. William R. Miller is past Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Breast Cancer Campaign, past Chairman…
Since August 2017 Andrew Morris has been the inaugural Director of Health Data Research UK, the multi-funder UK Institute for health and biomedical informatics research that will capitalise on the UK’s renowned data resources and research strengths to transform lives through health data science. He is seconded from his position as Professor of Medicine, and…
Paul Ndom was born in Cameroon and graduated MD from the Faculty of Medicine (CUSS), University of Yaounde. He is: Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Yaounde I, in charge of training in oncology; Head of Medical Oncology Service in Yaounde General Hospital since 1997; President of an NGO called SOCHIMIO (www.sochimiocm.org); Past President…
Alan Nelson, PhD, is the founder, Chairman and CEO of VisionGate, Inc., founder of Nortis, Inc., co-founder and President of the Predictive Health Analytics Institute (PHAIT), and the former Executive Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University where he also served as full professor of Bioengineering and Physics. He is a Fellow of…
Twalib Ngoma is one of Africa’s foremost radiation oncologists with special interest in cancer control. He trained at the Christie Hospital in Manchester and Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow in the 1980’s and then went back to his home country, Tanzania, where he now works as the Executive Director of the Ocean Road Cancer Institute.…
Ibolya Nyulasi is the Head of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Alfred Health, Melbourne Australia. Alfred Health is a multi-campus health service that includes a large quaternary teaching hospital with a major trauma, burns services and a 45 bed ICU. It also has a comprehensive cancer program including radiotherapy and bone marrow transplant…
Christian Partensky has been Professor of Digestive Surgery at the Claude Bernard University of Lyon since 1977 and Head of the Department of HPB Surgery at the Edouard Herriot Hospital of Lyon since from 1981 to 2007. After 2007, he was either concomitantly or sequentially, consultant for surgery, emeritus professor, member of the French High…
Markus Pasterk was born in Klagenfurt, Austria and studied Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna, where he received a M.Sc. degree in 1994. Early in his career he decided to change from research to research management. In 2001 Markus Pasterk was promoted Director of the newly created Division ‘Life Sciences’ within the Austrian Ministry of Science, with responsibilities of…
Paul Perrin has been Professor of Urology at the University of Lyon since 1981. He received his degree in Medicine from the Claude Bernard University in Lyon and his postgraduate training included an internship and residency in Urology at the Hospices Civils University Hospital. Then he was awarded a fellowship with Roger Barnes in Loma…
Chris Robertson is a statistician whose long term research interests have focussed on the application and development of statistical modelling in epidemiology. Since 2002 he has had a joint appointment as Professor of Public Health Epidemiology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and also at Heath Protection Scotland…
Hans Joachim Schmoll obtained his medical degree in 1970 from Hanover Medical University, Germany. Currently, Prof. Schmoll is the Head of the Division of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany, and Prof of Medicine at Martin Luther University, Germany. He has published over…
Pierre Singer has over 30 years of clinical and academic experience. He was born in France attending medical school at the Louis Pasteur Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg (France). Since 1995 he has been the Director of the General Intensive Care Department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel. Since 2006, Dr. Singer has…
Temple Smith graduated with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from University of Colorado. He did a joint postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of the mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam and the molecular biologist, John Sadler. He is a co-developer of the Smith-Waterman sequence alignment algorithm, and was one of the founders of GenBank at Los Alamos. He also…
Professor Richard Sullivan studies health systems, particular NCD policy and the impact of conflict on health. He is Professor of Cancer and Global Health at King’s College London, and Director of the Institute of Cancer Policy (ICP) and co-Director of the Conflict and Health Research Group. As well as holding a number of Visiting Chairs,…
Frank Sullivan has been a Senior Research Fellow International Prevention Research Institute since 2012. Following clinical training in the West of Scotland and fourteen years as a partner in a practice in Blantyre during which time he completed a PhD and a year’s work in the Seychelles he was appointed to the NHS Tayside chair of…
Professor Robert Thomas is the Special Advisor on Health to the Victorian Government and University of Melbourne, and Chair of the Advisory Council of Cancer Australia. He is co-chair of the National Cancer Expert Reference Group (NCERG) an AHMAC and Australian Government committee. He is Deputy Chair of the Board of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer…
Jean-Louis Touraine has been a Professor in Nephrology, Immunology and Transplantation at the Claude Bernard University of Lyon since 1979. From 1986 to 2012 he was Head of the Department of Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, Hôpital Edouard Herriot. Research work has taken him to Lyon, Edinburgh, Minneapolis and New York. In the field of immunodeficiency…
Ed Trapido is Associate Dean for Research at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health, Professor and Wendell Gauthier Chair for Cancer Epidemiology, and the Deputy Director for Population Science in the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, and immediate past president of the American College of Epidemiology. He also serves as the lead external…
Murat Tuncer is a specialist in Paediatric Haematology (1991) in Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. Between 1997 and 2005, Professor Tuncer was Secretary General of the National Pediatrics Society, an Executive Committee member of International Children’s Centre (ICC) (2002-2008), the Union of Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies (2000-2005), UNICEF National Committee (1999-2005), Turkish Science Academy…
Carlos Vallejos Sologuren is principal member of AUNA, one of the most important private healthcare services in Perú. In 1996, he founded the Sociedad Peruana de Oncología Médica, being its first President until 1997. In 1998, he was re-elected as President of the Sociedad Peruana de Oncología Médica. He was regional delegate of the “Federation…
Tran Van Thuan was born in Bac Ninh, Viet Nam and graduated MD, MSC and PhD from Ha Noi Medical University. He studied at Singapore General Hospital in 1998 as a clinical fellow, completed a clinical training course on Medical Oncology at Mater Hospital in Sydney, Australia and undertook a management course for Cancer Control at…
Philippe Vanhems graduated as Medical Doctor from Nancy Medical School in 1992. He accomplished his internship in Epidemiology and Public Health and integrated the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals in 1988-1991. He received a grant from the National Swiss Research Foundation to complete his PhD training in Public Health at the…
Lars Vatten was born in Trondheim, Norway, studied Medicine at the University of Tromsø (MD in 1980) and received a Master of Public Health in 1988 from the University of North Carolina. Two years later the University of Trondheim awarded him a PhD. In 1996, he became chair of Epidemiology at the Norwegian University of…
Jim Vaught spent 14 years at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, most recently as the Chief of the Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Georgia and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Medical College of Georgia. His additional training and research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the…
Dan Waitzberg is a gastrointestinal surgeon and nutrologist. He received his medical degree from the University of São Paulo (FMUSP), Brazil in 1974 and completed his residency in surgery at the Hospital das Clínicas, of the same university, in São Paulo in 1977. Dr. Waitzberg obtained his Masters and PhD in surgery from the University of São…
William Wood is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. He is currently Professor of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in the division of Surgical Oncology in the Winship Cancer Institute. He…
Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is currently the Executive Director of the Vitality Institute. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo where he supported portfolio transformation and led engagement with major international groups as well as new African initiatives at…
Annie Young, SRN, Phd, is Emeritus Professor of Nursing at Warwick Medical School, working in clinical research. Her research portfolio encompasses the management of thrombosis in cancer patients, symptomatic care including prevention of chemotherapy-associated alopecia and nausea and vomiting. Rehabilitation for cancer patients and new technologies for monitoring side effects of cancer therapies are special…
Muhammed Aasim Yusuf is a gastroenterologist with a particular interest and expertise in therapeutic endoscopy in gastrointestinal cancer. He graduated from the King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1986 and trained in internal medicine in Canterbury, and then in Gastroenterology in Birmingham, in the UK. He received his Membership of the Royal College of…
David Zaridze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is member of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He graduated Medical Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia (MD). He received a PhD from the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Oncology in Moscow in 1969 and DCc in 1977 from the Cancer Research Centre…
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of metabolic and neoplastic liver diseases. He is working on the development of biobanking-related technologies and machine learning approaches for digital pathology. He…
Witold Zatoński, M.D., Ph.D., is a Director and Professor in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Prevention at Cancer Center & Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland. As founder and President of the Health Promotion Foundation, Professor Zatoński has been instrumental in launching numerous health campaigns implemented in Poland and other areas of Eastern Europe.…
Tongzhang Zheng is Professor of Epidemiology (environmental health) at the Yale School of Public Health. He received a D.Sc. from the Harvard University in 1990. His research interests have been in the area of environmental pollution and human health, particularly in cancer epidemiology and aetiology related to environmental hormone disruptors, genetic susceptibility and gene-environmental interaction.…
Miri Ziv is a Medical Sociologist and serves as a member of various national and global councils, providing guidance on issues relating to cancer control – and all facets of the fight against cancer diseases. Miri Ziv is active both locally and globally. She works towards initiating and implementing national projects, especially in the area…