Born the 17th of March 1961, married, four children.
Mail: Frederic.dhermain@gustaveroussy.fr
Position: Senior Radiation Oncologist, full-time since 2003, Head of the Brain Tumor Board (250 new patients in 2015).

Areas of interest : Gliomas, Meningiomas, Primary and Secondary Brain tumors in Adults and Pediatrics. Functional Imaging and multi-modality treatments (MRI and PET).

More than 75 publications in: Lancet Neurol, Brain, Mutation Research, Annals of Oncology, Int J Radiat Biol Oncol Phys, Cancer Radiotherapie, Br J Haematology, Europ J Cancer, Radiother Oncology, J Neuro-Oncology, Radiat Oncol, Neurology, Neurosurgery. Chapter in Handbook of Neurology (Springer).

Reviewer for: Neuro-Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Oncotarget.

Ongoing scientific subjects: Prognostic impact of Perfusion / Permeability characteristics in intra-cranial tumors, functional MRI and PET in RT of Gliomas compared to conventional MRI and CT scan, Stereotactic therapy and other high-precision RT tools in Brain metastases.

Ph.D Thesis at the University Paris-Sud on “Functional MRI and Gliomas”, Pr Bourhis Director, Dr Ducreux Co-Director (LIMEC, INSERM Unit 788), 1st September 2010.

Experience with IMRT, Proton therapy, Stereotactic Radiotherapy (Cyberknife), Radio-chemotherapy, Multimodality imaging for diagnosis and radiotherapy.

Member of the EORTC Brain Tumor Group (Treasurer), Quality assurance and Imaging sub-comitees, SNO (Society of NeuroOncology), ESTRO and ANOCEF (Board). GCP trained.

Recent Publications

Dhermain F, Deutsch E. Stereotactic radiation and checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma patients with BM: a question of drug, timing or both? Ann Oncol. 2016 Mar;27(3):371-2.

Dhermain F, Barani IJ. Complications from radiotherapy. Handb Clin Neurol. 2016;134:219-34.

Le Rhun E, Dhermain F, Vogin G, Reyns N, Metellus P. Radionecrosis after stereotactic radiotherapy for brain metastases. Expert Rev Neurother. 2016 Aug;16(8):903-14.

Dhermain F, Reyns N, Colin P, Métellus P, Mornex F, Noël G. Stereotactic radiotherapy in brain metastases. Cancer Radiother. 2015 Jan 29. pii: S1278-3218 Le Rhun É, Dhermain F, Noël G, et al. ANOCEF guidelines for the management of brain metastases. Cancer Radiother. 2015 Feb 6. pii: S1278-3218

Martin V, Moyal É, Delannes M, Padovani L, Sunyach MP, Feuvret L, Dhermain F, Noël G, Laprie A. Radiotherapy for brain tumors: which margins should we apply? Cancer Radiother. 2013 Oct;17(5-6):434-43.

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. He obtained his doctorate in medicine (Neurosurgery specialty) from the University of Marseille in 2002 and his PhD in 2011 for his research on angiogenesis and invasion in gliomas. He received a master of Neurosciences from the Paris-Sud University in Paris, and completed his fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2006) and at The Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2007).

Prof. Philippe METELLUS is authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and received substantial awards for coordinating a variety of clinical and translational research projects. He is also reviewer for a number of international journals such as Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, The Lancet Oncology, World Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery… He is a board member of the French National Society of Neurosurgeons. Since 2012, he has been one of the elected members of the Neuro-Oncology section of EANS (European Association of Neurosurgical Societies). In 2013, he has been invited to join the Brain Mets Platform of EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer) and has been elected member of the Neuro-Oncological committee of the World Federation of Neurological Societies (WFNS).

Prof. Philippe METELLUS 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. In addition, since November 2016, Prof. Metellus coordinates a “Committee for Research, Clinical Innovation and Education (CRICE)”. This structure, created within Clairval Hospital Center, aims to boost, structure and develop the clinical research within the establishment.

In 2011 and 2012, Prof. Philippe METELLUS organized the 1st and 2nd Annual Brain Metastases Research and Emerging Therapies Conference in Brain Metastasis. In 2013, for its 3rd edition, this European Conference has been held under the auspices of EORTC, at the request of this European institution. This initiative has been reconducted in 2014 and 2015 with the RTOG (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group) participation, the North American equivalent of the EORTC. This conference has been yet organized in 2016 again under the auspices of EORTC and with the support of French (ANOCEF and SNCF) and European (EANO and EANS) societies and this 6th edition has been granted 9 European CME credits (ECMEC) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).

Dr. Michael Weller has been Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, since 2008. He qualified in medicine in Cologne, Germany, after completing his thesis on proliferative disorders of the retina. A postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, followed where he identified death receptor targeting as a potential treatment strategy for malignant gliomas. In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Department of General Neurology at the University Hospital Tübingen, Germany, where he had previously received his education in clinical neurology.

Dr. Weller has received several awards in recognition of his contributions to cancer research, including the German Cancer Award in 2007. He served as Chairman of the Neuro-Oncology Group of the German Cancer Society from 2001-2008. He is the Chairman of the German Glioma Network of the German Cancer Council, joined the Executive Board of the European Association for Neuro-Oncology (EANO) in 2010 and served as President of EANO for 2014-2016. He is also the Chairman of the Brain Tumor Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) (2015-2018) and hosts the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology Societies (WFNOS) Meeting 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Weller was involved in major practice-changing clinical trials including the registration trial for temozolomide in glioblastoma and served as PI on the NOA-03, NOA-04, NOA-08 and G-PCNSL-SG-1 trials in Germany and the DIRECTOR and ARTE trials in Switzerland. Dr Weller has a research focus on the immunology of gliomas and served as the PI of the phase III immunotherapy trial, ACT IV (Rindopepimut). He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Brain, Glia and Neuro-Oncology, and he was the Associate Editor Europe of Neuro-Oncology from 2006-2013.

Dr. Weller has co-authored more than 600 original publications in peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Lancet Oncology, PNAS, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and The Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Professor Manfred Westphal was born in Hamburg, where he also went to school and studied medicine at the University Hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The academic year of 1978-1979 was spent at the Medical School of the University of Glasgow as scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation. Based on his scientific research in experimental neuro-endocrinology as a medical student he obtained a research education grant from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and became a research fellow at the University of California San Francisco in the Hormnone Research Laboratory with C.H. Li. His main interest during that time was neuro-endocrinology focusing on peptide biology of opiate peptides, particularly ?-endorphine. He also started to study cell biology of brain tumors with Charles B. Wilson. This work was continued after his return to the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in 1984 where the Laboratory of Brain Tumor Biology in the department for neurosurgery was founded. Professor Westphal completed his residency at the UKE and in 1999 was appointed acting chairman.

In 2002 he was elected as director of the Neurosurgical Department at the University of Düsseldorf and shortly afterwards confirmed as director and chair of the Neurosurgical Department at the UKE. With the focus on neurooncology and vascular neurosurgery Professor Westphal has published 265 original papers, in addition to numerous book chapters and book editions. He is member of several scientific associations and was for more than eight years elected member of the study section for neurosciences at the DFG in Bonn. He started the Committee for Neurooncology at the EANS being its chair for 8 years, until he became secretary from 2003 until 2007. Therafter he chaired the Committee for Neuro-Oncology of the World Federation of Neurological Surgery from 2009 to 2013. Since 2004 he represents the EANS as Board Member in the European Brain Council (EBC in Brussels).Prof. Westphal was also president of the German Academy of Neurosurgery for the electoral period of 2013/2014.

Manfred Westphal, MD serves as chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the university medical center Hamburg Eppendorf since 1999. He founded the Hans-Dietrich Herrmann Laboratory for Brain Tumor Biology in 1984 after returning from a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF Medical Center. His interest has been in clinical and experimental neuro-oncology so besides numerous publications in the field of growth factors, angiogenesis, Invasion and glioma stem cell biology he has chaired or co-chaired four phase III trials including carmustine wafers, convection enhanced delivery of a toxin conjugate, suicide gene therapy with simitagene ceradenovec and a trial anti-EGF-R monoclonal antibody; in addition he participated in many other clinical trials as co-chair or investigator. His clinical and translational studies resulted in 280 peer reviewed articles. In 2014 he shared the Warner Prize for Cancer Research. He served as secretary of the EANS, secretary of the European Brain Council (Brussels) and as president of the German Academy of Neurosurgery. For two periods of totally 9 years he was elected to the neuroscience review oard of the German Research Council (Bonn).