Institut Gustave Roussy
Gustave Roussy is a cancer-research institute and European Cancer Centre. It is a centre for patient care, research and teaching, and patients with all types of cancer can be treated there.
| Gustave Roussy | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Villejuif, France |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Research center, Teaching Hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 457 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1926 |
| Links | |
| Website | https://www.gustaveroussy.fr/en |
| Lists | Hospitals in France |
It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
Notable people
- Gustave Roussy, first director (1921–1947)
- Tabaré Vázquez
- Maurice Tubiana, fifth director (1982–1988) and member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Georges Mathé, oncologist and immunologist who performed in 1959 the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins.[1]
- Frédéric Triebel, discoverer of the immune checkpoint molecule LAG3, worked at the Institute from 1986 until around 2001
- Barbara Tudek (1952-2019), biologist and professor who served as president of the Polish section of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society
Incidents
In 2017, a virologist was sentenced to 5 years in prison for poisoning colleagues with sodium azide in 2014.[2]
Notes
- Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times.
- "A l'Institut Gustave-Roussy, un scientifique empoisonne ses collègues". Franceinfo (in French). 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
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