We are pleased to announce the Congress Officers for the ESMO 2014 congress in Madrid.
ESMO 2014 Scientific Committee Chair
- Johann de Bono, Sutton, UK
ESMO 2014 Congress President
- Rolf A. Stahel, Zurich, Switzerland
ESMO 2014 Educational Chair
- Jean-Yves Douillard, Nantes-Saint-Herblain, France
ESMO 2014 Press Officer
- Solange Peters, Lausanne, Switzerland
ESMO 2014 Local Officer
- Ramon Colomer, Madrid, Spain
ESMO 2014 Advisory Council
- Fabrice André, Villejuif, France
- Jean-Pierre Armand, Villejuif, France
- Joaquim Bellmunt, Barcelona, Spain
- Paolo Casali, Milan, Italy
- David Cunningham, Sutton, UK
- Julian Downward, London, UK
- Martin Dreyling, Munich, Germany
- Alexander MM Eggermont, Villejuif, France
- Enriqueta Felip, Barcelona, Spain
- Rocio Garcia-Carbonero, Seville, Spain
- Pilar Garrido, Madrid, Spain
- Martin Gore, London, UK
- Richard Houlston, Sutton, UK
- Ian Judson, Sutton, UK
- Stanley B. Kaye, Sutton, UK
- Roberto Labianca, Bergamo, Italy
- Miguel Martín, Madrid, Spain
- Martine Piccart, Brussels, Belgium
- Lillian Siu, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Jean-Charles Soria, Villejuif, France
- Josep Tabernero, Barcelona, Spain
- Ian Tannock, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Michael Weller, Zurich, Switzerland
ESMO 2014 Educational Steering Committee
- Jean-Yves Douillard, Nantes-Saint-Herblain, France, Chair
- Andrés Cervantes, Valencia, Spain
- Michele Ghielmini, Bellinzona, Switzerland
- Nicholas Pavlidis, Ioannina, Greece
- Giampaolo Tortora, Verona, Italy
- Claus-Henning Koehne, Oldenburg, Germany
- Richard Herrmann, Basel, Switzerland
- Robert Eckert, Wendingen, Germany
- Nathan Cherny, Jerusalem, Israel
- Lorenz Jost, Bruderholz, Switzerland
- Raffaele Califano, Manchester, UK
ESMO 2014 Scientific Sub-Committees
Basic science and translational research
- Charles Swanton, London, UK, Chair
- Jiri Bartek, Copenhagen, Denmark
- René Bernards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Rebecca Burrell, London, UK
- Carlos Caldas, Cambridge, UK
- Robert Gatenby, Tampa, FL, US
- Ramaswamy Govindan, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Jos Jonkers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tak Mak, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Carlo Maley, San Franscisco, CA, USA
- Sheila Singh, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Yosef Yarden, Rehovot, Israel
Breast cancer, early stage
- Evandro de Azambuja, Brussels, Belgium, Chair
- Hatem Azim, Brussels, Belgium
- Agusti Barnadas, Barcelona, Spain
- Fatima Cardoso, Lisbon, Portugal
- Boon Chua, Melbourne, Australia
- Angelo Di Leo, Prato, Italy
- Peter Dubsky, Vienna, Austria
- Sabine C. Linn, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Carlo Palmieri, Liverpool, UK
- Alastair Thompson, Dundee, UK
- Andrew Tutt, London, UK
- Giuseppe Viale, Milan, Italy
Breast cancer, metastatic
- Giuseppe Curigliano, Milan, Italy, Chair
- Philippe Bedard, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Javier Cortes, Barcelona, Spain
- Carmen Criscitiello, Milan, Italy
- Carsten Denkert, Berlin, Germany
- Luca Gianni, Milan, Italy
- Roger Gomis, Barcelona, Spain
- Per Karlsson, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Antonio Llombart, Valencia, Spain
- Sherene Loi , Melbourne, Australia
- Sibylle Loibl, Neu-Isenburg, Germany
- Nick Turner, London, UK
CNS tumours
- Roger Stupp, Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerland, Chair
- Carmen Balaña, Barcelona, Spain
- Elizabeth Cohen-Jonathan-Moyal, Toulouse, France
- Enrico Franceschi, Bologna, Italy
- Evanthia Galanis, Rochester, MN, USA
- Khé Hoang-Xuan, Paris, France
- Stefan Pfister, Heidelberg, Germany
- Matthias Preusser, Vienna, Austria
- Guido Reifenberger, Duesseldorf, Germany
- Joan Seoane, Barcelona, Spain
- Martin van den Bent, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Colin Watts, Cambridge, UK
Developmental therapeutics
- Christian Dittrich, Vienna, Austria, Chair
- Ahmad Awada, Brussels, Belgium
- Udai Banerji, Sutton, UK
- Elisabeth de Vries, Groningen, Netherlands
- Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Manuel Hidalgo, Madrid, Spain
- Annette K. Larsen, Paris, France
- Ruth Plummer, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Roberto Salgado, Brussels, Belgium
- Patrick Schöffski, Leuven, Belgium
- Giampaolo Tortora, Verona, Italy
- Christopher Twelves, Leeds, UK
Familial cancers and genetic syndromes
- Rosalind Eeles, Sutton, UK, Chair
- Judith Balmaña, Barcelona, Spain
- Elena Castro, Sutton, UK
- Gareth Evans, Manchester, UK
- Kari Hemminki, Heidelberg, Germany
- Shirley Hodgson, London, UK
- Fred Menko, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Gillian Mitchell, Melbourne, Australia
- Kenneth Muir, Coventry, UK
- Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Paris, France
- Hans Vasen, Leiden, Netherlands
Gastrointestinal tumours, colorectal
- Dirk Arnold, Freiburg, Germany, Chair
- Federica Di Nicolantonio, Candiolo, Italy
- Eduardo Díaz-Rubio, Madrid, Spain
- Axel Grothey, Rochester, MN, USA
- Thomas Grünberger, Vienna, Austria
- Corrie Marijnen, Leiden, Netherlands
- Per Pfeiffer, Odense, Denmark
- Gerald Prager, Vienna, Austria
- Thomas Seufferlein, Ulm, Germany
- Matt Seymour, Leeds, UK
- Alberto Sobrero, Genoa, Italy
- Sabine Tejpar, Leuven, Belgium
- Christophe Tournigand, Créteil, France
Gastrointestinal tumours, non-colorectal
- Andrés Cervantes, Valencia, Spain, Chair
- Regina Beets Tan, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Fátima Carneiro, Porto, Portugal
- Thierry Conroy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
- Michel Ducreux, Villejuif, France
- Karin Haustermans, Leuven, Belgium
- Florian Lordick, Leipzig, Germany
- Teresa Macarulla, Barcelona, Spain
- Erika Martinelli, Naples, Italy
- Fernando Rivera, Santander, Spain
- Juan Valle, Manchester, UK
- Chris Verslype, Leuven, Belgium
Genitourinary tumours, prostate
- Eleni Efstathiou, Athens, Greece, Chair
- Gerhardt Attard, Sutton, UK
- Karim Fizazi, Villejuif, France
- Silke Gillessen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Axel Heidenreich, Aachen, Germany
- David Olmos, Madrid, Spain
- Stephane Oudard, Paris, France
- Chris Parker, Sutton, UK
- Mark Rubin, New York, NY, US
- Jack Schalken, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Avishay Sella, Zerifin, Israel
- Anders Widmark, Umeå, Sweden
Genitourinary tumours, non-prostate
- James Larkin, London, UK, Chair
- Michael Aitchison, Glasgow, UK
- Axel Bex, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Emiliano Calvo, Madrid, Spain
- Maria De Santis, Vienna, Austria
- Bernard Escudier, Villejuif, France
- Viktor Grünwald, Hannover, Germany
- Nicholas James, Birmingham, UK
- Arnaud Mejean, Paris, France
- Gerald Mickisch, Bremen, Germany
- Manuela Schmidinger, Vienna, Austria
- Cora Sternberg, Rome, Italy
Gynaecological cancers
- Andres Poveda, Valencia, Spain, Chair
- Michael Bookman, Tucson, AZ, US
- Antonio González Martin, Madrid, Spain
- Philipp Harter, Essen, Germany
- Jonathan Ledermann, London, UK
- Christian Marth, Innsbruck, Austria
- Mansoor Mirza, Copenhagen, Denmark
- José Palacios Calvo, Madrid, Spain
- Timothy Perren, Leeds, UK
- Sandro Pignata, Naples, Italy
- Eric Pujade-Lauraine, Paris, France
- Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Lyon, France
Haematological malignancies
- Faith Davies, Sutton, UK, Chair
- Peter Campbell, Cambridge, UK
- Enrico Derenzini, New York, NY, US
- Paolo Ghia, Milan, Italy
- Enrico Ocio, Salamanca, Spain
- Gert Ossenkooppele, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Mariano Provencio, Madrid, Spain
- Ingo Ringshausen, Munich, Germany
- Andreas Rosenwald, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Evangelos Terpos, Athens, Greece
- Elena Zamagni, Bologna, Italy
- Thorsten Zenz, Heidelberg, Germany
Head and neck cancer
- Sandrine Faivre, Clichy, France, Chair
- Jean Bourhis, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Andreas Dietz, Leipzig, Germany
- Cai Grau, Aarhus, Denmark
- Juan José Grau, Barcelona, Spain
- Kevin Harrington, London, UK
- Florence Huguet, Paris, France
- Gabriela Kornek, Vienna, Austria
- Christophe Le Tourneau, Paris, France
- Lisa Licitra, Milan, Italy
- Jean-Pascal Machiels, Brussels Belgium
- Amanda Psyrri, Athens, Greece
Immunotherapy of cancer
- George Coukos, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chair
- Hinrich Abken, Köln, Germany
- Luis de la Cruz Merino, Seville, Spain
- John Haanen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Robert Hawkins, Manchester, UK
- Ulrich Keilholz, Berlin, Germany
- Michele Maio, Siena, Italy
- Ignacio Melero, Pamplona, Spain
- Suzy Scholl, Paris, France
- Inge-Marie Svane, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sjoerd van der Burg, Leiden, Netherlands
Melanoma and other skin tumours
- Caroline Robert, Villejuif, France, Chair
- Paolo Ascierto, Naples, Italy
- Jurgen Becker, Graz, Austria
- Christian Blank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Reinhard Dummer, Zurich, Switzerland
- Jean -Jacques Grob, Marseille, France
- José Antonio López Martín, Madrid, Spain
- Richard Marais, Manchester, UK
- Grant McArthur ,Melbourne, Australia
- Olivier Michielin, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Mark Middleton, Oxford, UK
- Antoni Ribas, Los Angeles, CA, USA
NETs and endocrine tumours
- Ian Chau, Sutton, UK, Chair
- Massimo Falconi, Ancona, Italy
- Ashley Grossman Headington, Oxford, UK
- Dik Kwekkeboom, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Steven Libutti, New York, NY, USA
- Kjell Oeberg, Uppsala, Sweden
- Marianne Pavel, Berlin, Germany
- Alexandria Phan, Houston, TX, USA
- Guido Rindi, Rome, Italy
- Philippe Ruszniewski, Clichy, France
- Britt Skogseid, Uppsala, Sweden
NSCLC early stage, SCLC and other thoracic malignancies
- Johan Vansteenkiste, Leuven, Belgium, Chair
- Benjamin Besse, Villejuif, France
- Dirk De Ruysscher, Leuven, Belgium
- Wilfried Eberhardt, Essen, Germany
- Eric Lim, London, UK
- Celine Mascaux, Aurora, CO, USA
- Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Osaka-Sayama, Japan
- Gaetano Rocco, Naples, Italy
- Giorgio Scagliotti, Orbassano, Italy
- Philipp Schnabel, Heidelberg, Germany
- Suresh Senan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Giulia Veronesi, Milan, Italy
NSCLC, metastatic
- Solange Peters, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chair
- Alex Adjei, Buffalo, NY, USA
- Lucio Crinò, Perugia, Italy
- Rafal Dziadziuszko, Gdansk, Poland
- Keith Kerr, Aberdeen, UK
- Tony Mok, Sha Tin, Hong Kong
- Silvia Novello, Orbassano Italy
- Ken O'Byrne, Melbourne, Australia
- Martin Reck, Grosshansdorf, Germany
- Rafael Rosell, Badalona, Spain
- Egbert Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- James Spicer, London, UK
Public health and health economics
- Josep Maria Borras, Barcelona, Spain, Chair
- Tit Albreht, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Freddie Bray, Lyon, France
- Jack Cuzick, London, UK
- Harry de Koning, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Sivia de Sanjosé, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Silvano Gallus, Milan, Italy
- Valery Lemmens, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Yolande Lievens, Ghent, Belgium
- Jose M. Martin-Moreno, Valencia, Spain
- Nereo Segnan, Turin, Italy
Sarcoma
- Stefan Sleijfer, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Chair
- Thomas Brodowicz, Vienna, Austria
- Robin Jones, Seattle, WA, US
- Bernd Kasper, Mannheim, Germany
- Axel Le Cesne, Villejuif, France
- Cecile Le Pechoux, Villejuif, France
- Javier Martin Broto, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Aisha Miah, London, UK
- Nicolas Penel, Lille, France
- Piotr Rutkowski, Warsaw, Poland
- Winette van der Graaf, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Kees Verhoef, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Supportive and palliative care
- Mario Dicato, Luxembourg, Chair
- Raphael Catane, Tel Hashomer, Israel
- Petra Feyer, Berlin, Germany
- Pere Gascon, Barcelona, Spain
- Joern Herrstedt, Odense, Denmark
- Ivan Krakowski, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
- Alex Molassiotis , Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Carla Ripamonti, Milan, Italy
- César Rodriguez, Salamanca, Spain
- Fausto Roila, Terni, Italy
- Florian Scotté, Paris, France
- Simon Van Belle, Ghent, Belgium