Organizing Committee Member
METELLUS Philippe
Professor
Clairval Hospital Center
France
Biography
Philippe METELLUS is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Clairval Hospital Center in Marseille, France. He is specialized in brain tumors and is the actual leader of the Glioma and the Brain Metastases program in France. Besides his clinical activity, he is running translational and basic science research program in the INSERM UMR 911 unit. His clinical and research activities are focused on Gliomas and Brain Metastases. A surgical research program on gliomas located in eloquent areas including awake craniotomies with electroencephalographic recordings has been developed with his neurological team in 2011. Also, a translational research program on Gliomas and Brain Metastases biology is conducted with the oncological transfer laboratory at the Aix-Marseille University. These programs involve a multi-disciplinary brain tumor consortium including, Neurologists, Neuro-Oncologists, Medical-Oncologists, Radiation-Oncologists, Neuro-Radiologists, Pathologists and the translational oncology university platform. Since 2011, Prof. Metellus organizes the Annual Brain Metastases Research and Emerging Therapies Conference in Marseille.
Research Area
Brain Metastases Research