Laurence Zitvogel

Laurence Zitvogel is a French physician specializing in oncology and immunology with a large research experience in exosomes and the biological impact of those structures in malignant neoplasms.

Personal life

Laurence Zitvogel was born in Suresnes, France on 25 December 1963. She has worked with her spouse, Guido Kroemer, since 2001.

Education

Zitvogel graduated in Medical Oncology from the University of Paris in 1992, and received her Ph.D in Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in 1995.

Professional

Zitvogel became Director of Research for the University of Paris XI in 1998. Her work focuses on intestinal bacterial flora.

Zitvogel directs a research group on tumor immunology and immunotherapy of cancer at the Institut Gustave Roussy where her team has been focused on discovery and validation for antibody combination therapies.

She practices clinical oncology at Villejuif where she is also the Director of the Department of Tumoral Immunology and Immunotherapy.

Zitvogel is a professor at the University of Paris-Sud.

Recognition

Zitvogel received the INSERM prize for research in clinical and therapeutic approaches to cancer. She received the first European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) award during her lecture titled "Introducing the gut microbiome into the complexity of anticancer immunosurveillance" in 2017, and the Baillet Latour Prize from Belgium in 2018 with her co-researcher Kroemer for their research on mechanisms of cancer immune surveillance.

Jules A. Hoffmann, Nobel prize winner, described her as "one of the most outstanding personalities in the field”.

External links

• Laurence Zitvogel publications indexed by Google Scholar