Prof. Axel Le Cesne is Head of the International Department at Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus and a leading expert in soft tissue and bone sarcomas. He is co-chair of the French Sarcoma Group, an active member of the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group (STBSG), and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (2010–2013). Elected to the French Academy of Medicine in 2014, he is a member of ASCO and ESMO and has authored more than 320 research articles on sarcomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumours, lung and breast cancer, immunotherapy, and gene therapy.