Professor Caroline Robert

Professor Caroline Robert is Head of the Dermatology Department at Gustave Roussy and is responsible for the teaching of dermatology within the Paris-Sud Faculty of Medicine. She also leads the “Adaptive Resistance” research team within INSERM Unit U981.

Caroline Robert completed her medical studies in Paris at Paris V University (Cochin Hospital), then undertook the Paris residency programme and completed a clinical fellowship in dermatology at Saint-Louis Hospital. After spending three and a half years in a research laboratory in the United States (Harvard Medical School), she defended her PhD thesis in Immunology and Immunotherapy at Paris-Saclay University.

She chaired the Melanoma Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) between 2014 and 2017, and is a member of several cooperative research and medical groups: the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the European Association of Dermato-Oncology (EADO), the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), and the French Society of Dermatology.

Her areas of interest include clinical and translational research on melanoma, the study of resistance to targeted therapies and immunotherapy, as well as the investigation of cutaneous side effects of anticancer drugs.

Caroline Robert has coordinated numerous national and international clinical trials for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and is the author of more than 500 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

She has received numerous awards, including the Léopold Griffuel Prize from the ARC Foundation, the René Turpin Prize from the French Academy of Sciences, the ESMO Women in Oncology Award, and the INSERM Research Prize, and has been awarded the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit.