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Institut Gustave Roussy

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Location
  
Villejuif, France

Lists
  
Hospitals in France

Founded
  
1926

Hospital type
  
Teaching hospital

Emergency department
  
Yes

Phone
  
+33 1 42 11 42 11

Number of beds
  
457

Website
  
https://www.gustaveroussy.fr/en

Address
  
114 Rue Edouard Vaillant, 94800 Villejuif, France

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Gustave Roussy is one of the world’s leading cancer-research institutes and the premier European Cancer Centre. It is a centre for patient care, research and teaching, and patients with all types of cancer can be treated there.

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It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.

Institut gustave roussy


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.
  • Frédéric Triebel, discoverer of the immune checkpoint molecule LAG3, worked at the Institute from 1986 until around 2001

    • References

    Institut Gustave Roussy Wikipedia
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