Prof. Eric Van Cutsem

About Our Speaker

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, is full professor and Division Head of Digestive Oncology at University of Leuven and University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium and has several functions at the Leuven Cancer Institute. He co-founded ESMO GI/World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, and is Chair of the meeting in Barcelona, Spain. He is also member of many international societies and is member of the governmental commission of recognition for specialists in gastroenterology/digestive oncology. His research focuses on the development of new treatment strategies for various Gastrointestinal cancers, including drug development and identification of molecular markers and diagnostic tools.