About us

Professor Jean-Yves Blay is the Director of the Léon Bérard Cancer Centre since 2014 and President of Unicancer since 2019. He is an oncologist, researcher, and medical oncology professor at the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University. Professor Blay is an active member of the ESMO, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association of Cancer Research. His research interests focus on clinical and basic research in sarcomas, targeted treatment of cancer, the biology of breast carcinoma and relation between tumor immunologic microenvironment and malignant cells with the goal of clinical applications in the fields of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.

Professor Pierre Coulie is leading a research group at the de Duve Institute and is an expert on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of human tumors. His current research deals with the immunogenicity of bladder carcinomas, particularly at the early stages of tumor development, with inflammatory cytokines production in the context of cancer and with the identification of antigens targeted by T cells in human autoimmune diseases.

Professor Bernard Malissen directed the CIML from 1995 to 2005 where his team contributed to cracking the “TCR system”, the highly sophisticated molecular machinery that allows T cells to recognize the antigen and convert this information in a multitude of intracellular signals. He also studied one of the main partners of these cells, dendritic cells, which are responsible for presenting these antigens. Today, his research is focused on trying to address this complexity by combining “omics”, predictive models, patient biological samples with new computing power and digital analysis.

Professor Stan Riddell is a member of the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Professor of Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Professor Riddell is a world leader in developing immunotherapies, which harness the power of the immune system to fight cancers and dangerous infections. His research focuses on detailing the complex biology of immune cells called T cells and pioneering therapies that use genetically reprogrammed T cells to specifically recognize and destroy diseased cells. These therapeutic T cells target tumor antigens, using either natural molecules called T-cell receptors or synthetic molecules called chimeric antigen receptors. Chimeric antigen receptors, also known as CARs, combine elements from T-cell receptors and from other immune cell-produced antibody molecules. His team’s breakthroughs are helping researchers make progress for patients who need better therapies.

Doctor Qing Wang graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a PhD, supervised by Dr. Bert Vogelstein at the School of Medicine, and an MHS in Biostatistics, supervised by Dr. Rafael Irizarry at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before coming to the US, he obtained his BS and MS in Molecular Biology from Nankai University and trained with Dr. Tianhui Zhu, the Founding Dean of Nankai University School of Medicine. Doctor Wang is also currently pursuing an Executive MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and will obtain his degree in 2023. To date, Dr. Qing Wang has invented and patented 18 cutting-edge technologies in clinical multi-omics molecular diagnostic fields, ranging from early disease detection to companion diagnostics. Through Complete Omics Inc., Dr. Wang is working to break the boundaries between different fields in medicine and the life sciences and to comprehensively leverage the features of omics technologies to achieve improved personalized disease management and precision medicine.