Eric TARTOUR, M.D., Ph.D.

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Affiliation

Université Paris-Cité, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou

Biography

Eric Tartour is MD, PhD and Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine Paris Descartes. He is currently responsible of the laboratory of immunology at Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou where his team has developed an immunomonitoring platform for cancer immunotherapy. He is also leading an INSERM team at the PARCC research center with main topics on “angiogenesis and immunity” and discovery of “predictive biomarker related to tumor microenvironment”. His main scientific contributions was the demonstration of the interest of targeting dendritic cells for the induction of CD8+T cells and the favorable prognostic value of TH1 cell infiltration in cancer (Haicheur et al J Immunol 2000, Tartour et al J Natl Cancer Inst 1998). He also emphasizes the need of resident memory T cells to control mucosal tumors (Sandoval F Sci Transl Med 2013, Nizard M et al Nat Commun 2017)