Professor Alexander Eggermont is General Director of Gustave Roussy Cancer Institute, Professor of Oncology at the Paris-Sud University, and Professor of Oncological Surgery at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in Holland. He also holds the Honorary Joseph Maisin Honorary Chair of Oncological Surgery at the Louvain Catholic University in Belgium, and an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Essen-Duisburg, Germany. In addition, he serves as the President of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, and the President of the Cancer Core Europe consortium. In 2015, Prof. Eggermont was elevated to the status of Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. His research specialty is in immunotherapy, the treatment of melanomas and sarcomas in addition to fundamental research in pathogenesis and immunology of tumors.