Institut Gustave Roussy

Geography
Institut Gustave-Roussy

Institut Gustave-Roussy - Main Building
Location	Villejuif, France
Organisation
Hospital type	Research center, Teaching Hospital
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	368
History
Founded	1926
Links
Website	http://www.igr.fr
Lists	Hospitals in France

The Institut Gustave-Roussy is one of the world’s leading cancer-research institutes and the biggest health center dedicated to oncology in Europe. It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.

Personalities who have worked in the hospital

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]

Notes

^ Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/health/research/21mathe.html.