Professor Gilles Salles, the Chair of the Lymphoma Hub, is the Head of the Hematology Department of the Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, FR, and lecturer at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FR.

After training in Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, US), Prof. Salles has been working in the field of lymphoma clinical research with the following specific interests:

Identification and validation of new prognostic factors for lymphoma
Clinical trials, especially in follicular lymphoma patients (serving, amongst others, as the Principal Investigator of the largest academically randomized clinical trial in patients with follicular lymphoma — PRIMA)
Development of novel drugs, and preclinical research

He is Head of the research team “Experimental and Clinical Models of Lymphomagenesis”, affiliated with the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon , FR (INSERM1052 CNRS5286 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Hospices Civils de Lyon) that examines several aspects of lymphoma biology (role of antigen receptors on T and B cells in lymphoma, metabolism and lymphoma, biology of indolent lymphoma, inherited genetics, and lymphoma).

Positions of responsibility/awards:

Deputy Editor (Lymphoma) of Haematologica (2001–2003)
Chair of the Leukaemia Committee of the "Fondation de France" (2005–2007)
Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the European Hematology Association (EHA) for its 13^th Annual Congress (2008)
Professor of Medicine (Hematology) at Faculté de Médecine et de Maïeutique Lyon-Sud Charles Mérieux, Université Lyon 1
Chair of the Clinical Hematology Department at Hospices Civils de Lyon (Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud)
Chair of the research team "Experimental and Clinical Models of Lymphomagenesis" in the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (INSERM1052 CNRS5286 Centre Léon Bérard, Université Claude Bernard, Hospices Civils de Lyon)
Chair of LYSA (The Lymphoma Study Association)
Vice-president for research at the Board of Directors of Hospices Civils de Lyon
Deputy of the Fédérations hospitalo-universitaires dédiées à l’oncohématologie (FHU DIPOHL)
Chair of the Board of the Carnot Institute CALYM
Chair of the Lymphoma Hub

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Paola Frisone Medical Writer

Paola Frisone Medical Writer