Institut Gustave Roussy
In April 2019, three new interventional radiology rooms were inaugurated, making it the largest platform of this type in Europe, entirely dedicated to oncology. Interventional radiology is a so-called "minimally invasive" diagnostic and treatment technique, which uses images to guide access to deep-lying organs, without having to "open up" patients. Gustave Roussy carries out more than 4,000 operations of this type each year.
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.
- 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
Gustave-Roussy School of Cancer Sciences
Together with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris-Saclay, the Gustave-Roussy Institute runs the School of Cancer Sciences, a university establishment specializing in oncology. The lessons take place at the Cancer Campus in Villejuif in the Val-de-Marne.
In the various courses offered by the faculty of medicine (adult, adolescent and child oncology; surgery; best practices; medical imaging; radiotherapy; other courses), the establishment integrates the Doctoral School of Oncology, Biology, Medicine, Health (and its Master 2 in Biology and Health, Cancerology specialty) created with the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay.
Directed in 2015 by Pierre Blanchard, the school had trained nearly 2,800 students and awarded twenty-six university degrees.
Awards and Rankings
In 2020, the Institut Gustave Roussy was ranked as the first leading cancer hospital in Europe and in the top 5 best specialized hospitals in the world.
Incidents
In 2017, a virologist from the Institut Gustave Roussy was sentenced to 5 years in prison for poisoning colleagues with sodium azide in 2014.
Notes
- ^ "Cancer : l'institut Gustave Roussy investit dans les technologies d'avenir". Les Echos (in French). 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ^ Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times.
- ^ Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud (2015). "L'École des Sciences du Cancer" (PDF). gustaveroussy.fr (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-19. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ^ "Oncology". Newsweek. 23 September 2020.
- ^ "A l'Institut Gustave-Roussy, un scientifique empoisonne ses collègues". Franceinfo (in French). 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2018-09-10.