# New trustee for Cancer Research UK

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/04/04/new-trustee-cancer-research-uk/
- Published: 2016-04-04T10:33:12+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Cancer Research UK has appointed Professor Alexander Eggermont MD PhD as a trustee.**

Professor Eggermont is Director General of leading European cancer research institute,
the Institut Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in Paris. He is also Professor of Oncology
at the Paris-Sud University, and Professor of Surgical Oncology and Endowed Professor
of International Networking in Cancer Research at the Erasmus University Medical
Centre, Rotterdam. He holds the Joseph Maisin Chair in Oncology at the Catholic 
University of Louvain and is a Fellow of the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer
Institute, USA.

He is also President of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences and President of
Cancer Core Europe. He chairs the Adjuvant Therapy Committee European Organisation
for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Melanoma Group and is a past chair
of the EORTC Melanoma Group.

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Michael Pragnell, Chairman of Cancer Research UK, said:

> “Alexander Eggermont is a renowned oncologist who brings extensive international
> experience to the charity. I am delighted to welcome him to our governing Council
> and I much look forward to working with him.”

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