Institut Gustave Roussy
| Institut Gustave-Roussy | |
|---|---|
 Institut Gustave-Roussy - Main Building | |
| Geography | |
| 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 together with the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
Notable employees
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times.