Paris: If cancer immunotherapy is a revolution in how cancer is treated, then Dr Jérôme Galon is a revolutionary.

In addition to being a Research Director at INSERM in Paris, Dr Galon is one of the co-founders of Marseille based HalioDx, an immuno-oncology diagnostics company that is commercializing the research from his laboratory.

Last month, while in Paris, I had the great pleasure to talk with him in his office at the Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC) on the left bank of Paris.

At the time of the French revolution in 1789, it was the gathering place of the “Club des Cordeliers,” for famous revolutionaries such as Danton, Marat, and Camille Desmoulins. Dr Galon told me it was where the Declaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen de 1789 (Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen) was signed.

As such, it’s a very appropriate place to find a cancer immunotherapy revolutionary…

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