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Aurélien Marabelle is a physician-scientist with expertise in oncology (MD) and immunology (PhD). His clinical practice is dedicated to early phase clinical trials in cancer immunotherapies within the Drug Development Department (DITEP) of Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in France. He leads a translational research laboratory (LRTI) within the INSERM unit of Prof Laurence Zitvogel with a focus on mechanisms of action of immune targeted therapies. He is also the director of the Clinical Investigation Center BIOTHERIS dedicated to intratumoral immunotherapies (INSERM CIC1428). Dr Marabelle was initially trained as a scientist in the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and King’s College London and as a clinician pediatric hemato-oncologist at the Léon Bérard Cancer Center in Lyon, France where he did his clinical fellowship. He did his post-doctoral research fellowship in the laboratory of Prof Ronald Levy at Stanford University, CA on strategies to overcome the resistance to immune checkpoint targeted therapies. Dr Marabelle is an active member of ESMO, ASCO, AACR, SITC, EATI and is the current president of the French Society for Cancer Immunotherapies (FITC).