Philippe Clezardin
Vice President for Healthcare Outcomes Policy and
Cancer Prevention and Audit Committees,
UNC Cardiac Surgery
Norway
Biography
Philippe CLEZARDIN is Research Director at INSERM (National Institute for Medical Research), head of the Research Unit UMR_S1033 entitled: “Pathophysiology, Diagnostic and Treatments of Bone Diseases” (http://www.lyos.fr/; 2011-present), and Coordinator of the european Marie Curie Initial Training Network BONE-NET (2011-2015). He is also Associate Editor of BoneKEy Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and the Journal of Bone Oncology (Elsevier). Before that he was Director of the Federative Research Institute “IFR62” entitled: “Cancer, Nutrition and Metabolism” (14 laboratories, circa: 500 people; 2007-2010) and President of the Cancer and Bone Society (2009-2010).
Research Interest
He is member of several scientific societies [American Association for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Association pour la Recherche sur les Tumeurs de la Prostate (ARTP), International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS), Société Française du Cancer (SFC), European Study Group of Bone Metastasis (GEMO)]. For the past twenty years, Philippe focused his research interests on the mechanisms of bone metastasis formation of breast and prostate cancers, with the goal of developing new anticancer therapies. He obtained his Ph.D and D.Sc. from the University of Lyon, France. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (1984-1986) and was a visiting scientist at the Ottawa General Hospital, ON, Canada (1990-1991). Philippe has authored over 130 publications and contributed to about 15 chapters in textbooks on cancer research (h-index: 43). Some of his publications in Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, JNCI, JCI and PNAS have been ranked by the ISI Web of Science among the most highly cited papers.
