Professor Jean-Yves Scoazec

Professor Jean-Yves Scoazec, a medical pathologist, is head of the Department of Medical Biology and Pathology at Gustave Roussy and director of the Inserm US 23 and CNRS UMS 3655 unit “Molecular Analysis, Imaging, and Modeling of Cancer” (AMMICA). A university professor and hospital practitioner at the University of Paris-Sud, Jean-Yves Scoazec is the author of more than 450 scientific publications and has contributed to several WHO tumor classifications.

His primary research interests focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in neuroendocrine tumors and the mechanisms of neuroendocrine differentiation in carcinomas.

Professor Jean-Yves Scoazec oversees the ten research platforms at Gustave Roussy, which include: preclinical evaluation, transgenic models, biological resources, experimental pathology, genomics, imaging and cytometry, metabolomics, bioinformatics, rare circulating cells, immunomonitoring, and hematology.

A former member of the Scientific Council of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) and chair of the Endocrine Working Group of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), he served as president of the French Society of Pathology and currently chairs the National Professional Council of French Pathologists.