Institut Gustave Roussy

Institut Gustave-Roussy
Institut Gustave-Roussy - Main Building
Geography
Location	Villejuif, France
Organisation
Hospital type	Research center, Teaching Hospital
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	368
History
Founded	1926
Links
Website	http://www.igr.fr
Lists	Hospitals in France

The Institut Gustave-Roussy is one of the world’s leading cancer-research institutes and the biggest health center dedicated to oncology in Europe together with the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.

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.^[1]
Frédéric Triebel, discoverer of the immune checkpoint molecule LAG3, worked at the Institute from 1986 until around 2001

Notes

↑ Martin, Douglas (20 October 2010). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times.

Villejuif

Education	EFREI Institut Sup'Biotech de Paris Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud (in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre)

Landmarks	Institut Gustave Roussy Hôpital Paul-Brousse

Paris Métro stations	Villejuif – Léo Lagrange Villejuif – Louis Aragon Villejuif – Paul Vaillant-Couturier

This list is incomplete.

Coordinates: 48°47′41″N 2°20′55″E / 48.79472°N 2.34861°E / 48.79472; 2.34861

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