Eric Solary MD

Eric Solary is a practicing hematologist and professor of hematology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris-Saclay, Professor Eric Solary was Director of Research at Gustave Roussy from 2011 to February 2020. In this role, he ensured the integration of clinical, translational, and fundamental research, the structuring and operation of technological platforms grouped in a mixed-service unit, and the coordination of major research programs around molecular medicine, immunotherapy, and DNA repair. In 1999, Éric Solary created the Inserm research unit "Cell death and cancer" and the Inserm research center "Lipids, nutrition, cancer" in 2007. He continued his work in the field of molecular processes governing the life cycle of blood cells. Within research unit 1287 "Hematopoietic stem cells and development of myeloid hematopathies" at Gustave Roussy, Éric Solary studies the functions of normal monocytes and the pathophysiology of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Eric Solary is the author of more than 350 publications in international scientific journals. He has received numerous awards, including the Raymond-Rosen Prize from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale in 2018. Alongside his research and consulting activities, Éric Solary was the scientific director of Cancéropôle Ile-de-France, headed the IRCIV federative research institute until 2013, Inserm unit 1009 until 2014, and unit 1170 until 2020. He is currently the chairman of the scientific council of the ARC Foundation and a member of the scientific council of the Faculty of Medicine.