Martine Piccart

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Professor Martine Piccart-Gebhart is a Belgian medical doctor and President of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). She is head of chemotherapy at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels and associate professor in oncology at the ULB.

She graduated as a Medical Doctor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1978 where she also met Michael Gebhart. She otbtained her internal medicine certification at the ULB in 1983. After she graduated she worked as a fellow for two years with Professor Franco Muggia at the New York University Medical Center (1983-1985). Afterwards she returned to Brussels, where she worked for Professor J. Klastersky, head of internal medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute. She became certified in European Medical Oncology in London in 1989, and earned her PhD from the ULB in 1993. She continued working at the institute and specialized in breast cancer and ovarian cancer. In 1996, she founded the Breast International Group (BIG) and and since 2006 she is President of the EORTC until 2009.

[edit] Awards

Fleuris Mercier Award for the best medical student
1997: European Society of Medical Oncology Award
2004: Award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
2004: Prix Mois du Cancer du Sein
2005: Freedom to Discover grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb
2005: Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research Award
2006: Claude Jacquillat Award for achievements in clinical oncology
2006: ESMO-GSK Lifetime Achievement Award in Breast Cancer Research (to the BIG)
2007: Miami Breast Cancer Conference Award of Excellence for 2007