Pierre Sonveaux #
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE#
Pierre Sonveaux is a Pharmacist and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He was recently appointed Research Associate of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Assistant Professor in the Pole of Pharmacology at the University of Louvain (UCL) Medical School in Brussels, Belgium.After graduation as a Pharmacist in 1998, Pierre Sonveaux joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR, Brussels branch) to perform a Master degree in tumor immunogenetics. In 2000, he joined the team of Prof. Olivier Feron at UCL to perform a PhD in vascular oncology. Pierre’s PhD thesis dissertation (The tumor vasculature: functional reactivity and therapeutic implications, 2004) reports the development of new anticancer strategies that exploit the tumor vascular reactivity to radio- and chemo- sensitize tumors. These approaches have now collectively been termed ‘provascular’. As a post-doc and fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), Pierre joined the Radiation Oncology group of Prof. Mark W. Dewhirst at Duke University in North Carolina, USA. There, he gained new knowledge in tumor metabolism that he translated in a career as a senior post-doc and more recently as a young independent investigator when he joined back the Pole of Pharmacology at UCL.
Pierre Sonveaux is the author of about 30 papers, some of them in prominent journals such as Cancer Research, Circulation Research, Molecular Cell and the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the inventor of 1 granted patent and of 3 pending patent applications. He received prestigious awards, among which the National Prize of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2005), the ESTRO Varian-Juliana Denekamp award (2007), the FECS-EJC award (2008) and the EACR Highly Commended Award (2010). Pierre currently holds an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant (#243188 - TUMETABO), which by itself speaks for the highly innovative and provocative aspects of Pierre Sonveaux’s researches at the European level.