Friends of IARC

"As the president of the French Institut national du cancer, it is crucial for me, and the whole team I represent, to be active members of the IARC community, to combine our efforts towards our common goals: fighting cancer year after year, reducing the burden of cancer for all the different populations worldwide, and more than ever obtaining increasing results in the prevention of all cancers, to the benefit of all communities worldwide that IARC devotes its work to."

Professor Norbert Ifrah is a haematologist who holds a university clinical appointment at the University of Angers in France. Professor Ifrah is the current President of the National Cancer Institute (INCa), France. He was previously Head of the Department of Blood Disorders, and then Head of the Medical Commission of the University Hospital Centre in Angers. 

Professor Ifrah has also held numerous positions in societies and on boards of directors, including the League Against Cancer, the Cancer Group of the Hospital Federation of France, and the French College of Haematologists. He also served as Vice-President of the French Society of Haematology and as President of the Haematology and Cancer section of the National Council of Universities. Professor Ifrah is the author of more than 200 publications, mainly in the field of malignant haematology, acute leukaemias, and stem cell transplantation.