Jérôme Galon is the winner of the Prix Galien 2021, Research section

17/12/2021

On December 17, 2021, the Galien committee awarded the Prix Galien Research Work section to Jérôme Galon, director of the “Integrative Immunology and Cancerology” team at the Cordeliers Research Center.

“Dr Jérôme Galon is rewarded for his research work demonstrating the major prognostic, predictive and therapeutic importance of natural anti-tumor immunity, leading to the development of
assessment tools such as the Immunoscore,” said the Galien committee, which emphasized the importance of this work “in the diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with
of patients with cancer, allowing for a better selection of patients who are candidates for existing and future immunotherapies. This immunological and not only topographical approach of the
This immunological and not only topographical approach of the tumor extension could replace or be part of a prognostic classification of tumors”.

Watch the award ceremony on the Innovation and Galien website.

See the Prix Galien 2021 press kit.