Dr. Christos Sotiriou earned a medical degree from the Medicine Faculty of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 1993. He did his internal medicine/oncology residency at the Institut Jules Bordet (Profs. J. Klastersky, M. Piccart), and he earned his specialty in this field in July 1999. From October 1999 till September 2001, he worked as a basic research fellow, at the Division of Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute (Pr Edison Liu), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. After having completed a PhD Thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in September 2004, he became “Chercheur Qualifié” (Research Faculty Member – tenured position) at the National Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS, Belgium) in 2005. In March 2010, he took over the lead of the Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory J-C Heuson. In October 2013, he was appointed “Maître de Recherche” (Senior Research Associate – tenured position) by the National Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS, Belgium). Dr. Sotiriou is “Chef de Clinique” (Head of clinic), since October 2013, at the Medical Oncology Clinic of the Institut Jules Bordet.

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