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Gustave Roussy

Gustave Roussy is Europe's leading cancer centre, home of the ESMO-MCBS scale and major ADC and immunotherapy trial leadership.

Largest cancer centre in Europe; DITEP phase 1 unit; leadership of DESTINY, TROPION, and immunotherapy trials; Paris-Saclay affiliation.

Location
Villejuif, FR
Type
cancer center
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
#6
OnCo score
#8 · 110 points (54 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 56 from 28 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Phase 1 (DITEP)
  • Breast ADC trials
  • Immuno-oncology

People

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Alexander Eggermont
Chief Scientific Officer, Princess Máxima Center; Professor, Utrecht; former EORTC President
MelanomaAdjuvant immunotherapySurgical oncology

Surgical oncologist who led the EORTC adjuvant ipilimumab and pembrolizumab trials in melanoma.

Aurélien Marabelle
Clinical Director, Cancer Immunotherapy Program (DITEP), Gustave Roussy
Immuno-oncologyEarly-phase immunotherapyMSI-high tumours

Aurélien Marabelle is the immunotherapy investigator behind the tumour-agnostic pembrolizumab data in MSI-high cancers.

Benjamin Besse
Head of Clinical Research, Gustave Roussy; thoracic oncologist
Thoracic oncologyADCs in lung cancerOncogene-driven NSCLC

Benjamin Besse is a lung cancer trialist central to the Dato-DXd and HER3-DXd lung programmes.

Fabrice André
Director of Research, Gustave Roussy; Professor of Medical Oncology, Paris-Saclay
Breast cancerPrecision oncologyGenomics-driven trials

Breast cancer geneticist who led SOLAR-1 and the SAFIR precision-medicine trials; ESMO President 2025-2026.

Fabrice Barlesi
Director General, Gustave Roussy; thoracic oncologist
Thoracic oncologyImmunotherapyPrecision medicine

Fabrice Barlesi runs Europe's largest cancer centre and is a leading lung cancer trialist.

Jean-Charles Soria
Professor of Medicine, Paris-Saclay; former Director General, Gustave Roussy
Early drug developmentEGFR-mutant lung cancerPhase 1 trials

Ran the phase 1 unit that pioneered many targeted therapies, and led the FLAURA trial that made osimertinib first-line.

Karim Fizazi
Head of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy; Professor, Paris-Saclay
Prostate cancerGenitourinary oncologyHormone therapy

Led LATITUDE and PEACE-1, which put abiraterone into first-line metastatic prostate cancer.

Laurence Zitvogel
Research Director, INSERM U1015, Gustave Roussy
Tumour immunologyGut microbiome and immunotherapyImmunogenic cell death

Immunologist who showed that the gut microbiome shapes responses to immunotherapy and chemotherapy.

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