Institut Gustave Roussy

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Gustave Roussy
1934 inauguration
Geography
Location	Villejuif, France
Organisation
Type	Research center, Teaching Hospital
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	457
History
Opened	1926
Links
Website	https://www.gustaveroussy.fr/en
Lists	Hospitals in France

Gustave Roussy is a cancer-research institute and European Cancer Centre. It is a centre for patient care, research and teaching, and patients with all types of cancer can be treated there.

It is located in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Gustave Roussy, a Swiss-French neuropathologist.

Notable people[]

• Gustave Roussy, first director (1921–1947)
• Tabaré Vázquez
• , fifth director (1982–1988) and member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Georges Mathé, oncologist and immunologist who performed in 1959 the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins.^[1]
• Frédéric Triebel, discoverer of the immune checkpoint molecule LAG3, worked at the institute from 1986 until around 2001
• Barbara Tudek (1952-2019), biologist and professor who served as president of the Polish section of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society

Awards and Rankings[]

In 2020, the Institut Gustave Roussy was ranked 5th among the World's Best Specialized Hospitals.^[2]

Incidents[]

In 2017, a virologist from the Institut Gustave Roussy was sentenced to 5 years in prison for poisoning colleagues with sodium azide in 2014.^[3]

Notes[]

Scholia has an organization profile for Institut Gustave Roussy.

Coordinates: 48°47′41″N 2°20′55″E / 48.79472°N 2.34861°E / 48.79472; 2.34861