Alexander Eggermont

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Alexander Maximiliaan Marie Eggermont (born February 27, 1952 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch oncologist and surgeon at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology (English Princess Maxima Center ) in Utrecht .

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Eggermont studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1971 to 1979 , interrupted by a research stay at the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire in Paris . He completed his specialist training as a surgeon from 1981 to 1987 at the University Hospital Rotterdam- Dijkzigt, again interrupted by a research stay at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda , Maryland . In 1987 he received his doctorate from the Erasmus University Rotterdam with a thesis on tumor immunology .

From 1988 to 2011 Eggermont was chief surgeon at the Daniel den Hoed cancer center, and from 1994 to 2011 head of the laboratory for experimental surgery there . From 2000 to 2011 he was head of the department for oncological surgery at Erasmus University, from 2003 to 2016 he was professor for surgical oncology. From 2010 to 2019/2020 Eggermont was Director of the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif near Paris and from 2012 to 2020 he was Professor of Oncology at the University of Paris-South . Since October 2019 Eggermont, succeeding Hans Clevers Scientific Director ( Chief Scientific Officer , CSO) of the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht.

Eggermont has made important contributions to the development of interdisciplinary oncological care structures and to the initiation of top oncological centers ( Comprehensive Cancer Centers ) in Germany as well. His own research focuses on soft tissue and skin tumors ( sarcomas and malignant melanomas ), cancer immunotherapy and drug development .

Eggermont is (as of 2020) the chief editor of the European Journal of Cancer . He is the author or co-author of over 900 scientific publications (as of 2020). According to Google Scholar, it has an h-index of 121, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 103 (as of June 2020). He was President of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences from 2010 to 2020 and of Cancer Core Europe from 2014 to 2020 .

Eggermont became a Knight of the French Legion of Honor in 2015 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2018 . He was awarded the German Cancer Aid Prize in 2019 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Alexander Eggermont. In: gustaveroussy.fr. Institut Gustave Roussy , accessed on June 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Editorial Board. In: ejcancer.com. European Journal of Cancer, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Alexander Eggermon. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed June 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Eggermont, Alexander MM In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed June 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. Alexander Eggermont. In: essen.de. City of Essen , December 18, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christiana Tschoepe: Awarding of the German Cancer Aid Prize 2019. German Cancer Aid, press release from January 27, 2020 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on June 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Eggermont, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggermont, Alexander Maximiliaan Marie; Eggermont, Alexander MM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch oncologist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam