Professor Véronique Minard-Colin

Véronique Minard-Colin is a Professor of Paediatrics and a hospital practitioner (PU-PH) at the University of Paris-Saclay. A specialist in paediatric lymphomas and sarcomas, as well as in immunology of childhood cancers, Professor Minard-Colin is responsible for the Immunotherapy programme within the Department of Paediatric Oncology at Gustave Roussy. In her role at Gustave Roussy, she is the head of the Paediatrics Committee, where she particularly coordinates research and teaching.

Véronique Minard-Colin was elected Vice-President of the French Society for Paediatric Cancers (SFCE) in 2023 and is a member of several European groups, notably the European Intergroup for Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (EICNHL) and the European Paediatric Sarcoma Soft Tissues Study Group (EpSSG). She is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) and, since 2020, a member of the educational board of SIOP Europe.

Since 2024, she has been the Deputy Director of Paris Kids Cancer, a new Integrated Centre for Excellence in Paediatric Oncology research aimed at combating cancers in children and adolescents. Holding a PhD in Immunology, she spent nearly three years at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). She was awarded the Bernard Amos Prize for her research. Professor Minard-Colin co-coordinates several national and international clinical trials. She is notably the chair of the steering committee for the BIANCA study, the first study involving CAR T-cells in paediatric lymphomas.

Professor Minard-Colin is the author and co-author of more than 190 publications in international journals and specialised books.