Jean-Luc Harousseau

Jean-Luc Harousseau is Professor of Hematology at the University of Nantes in France. He has been the Chairman of the French National Authority for Health (HAS) since 2011 and Chair of its Economic and Public Health Evaluation Committee since 2014. He headed the Department of Clinical Haematology in Nantes’ teaching hospital for 24 years and was Director of the René Gauducheau Cancer Center. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French National Cancer Institute and President of the Clinical Research in Oncology National Committee. He was a founding member of the Groupe Ouest-Est Leucémies Aigues et Maladies du Sang and of the Intergroupe Français du Myélome, which he presided from 2009 to 2011. Harousseau is a member of the European Haematology Association, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He received the 2005 Waldenström Award and the 2009 Robert Kyle Award for his research on multiple myeloma.