Nationality: Belgian

City: Liège

Present functions



Since 1988, Head of the Laboratory of Tumor and Development Biology at the University of Liège.

Since 1996, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Senology at the University of Liège.

Formation



MD from the University of Liège.

After 3 years spent at the Women' s Clinic at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, he obtained his PhD in Cell Biology and Biochemistry.

As a Fellow off the Fogarty International Research Centre at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as a Visiting Associate at the NIH, as well as other long-term positions in Paris and at the University of Oulu, Finland, he has extensive basic and clinicial training in reproductive medicine.

Honours



In 2005, he received the “Prix Maisin”, highest distinction for medical achievement of the National Research Foundation in Belgium.

Scientific societies and professional associations



Representative at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)

General Secretary of the European Society off Gynecology

Correspond of the Belgian and French Academies of Medicine.

Member of many Belgian and international scientific committees.

Scientific editions



Member of 8 editorial boards of international peer-reviewed journals.

Author and co-author of more than 340 publications

Lectures and congresses



He is an invited lecturer at the Universities off Paris VII and Paris XI.

He has organized and has presided more than 200 congresses.

He is invited lecturer at more than 500 conferences.

Contact for the General Secretary Prof. J.M. Foidart

Mr Marc Robbiano: marc.robbiano@chu.ulg.ac.be