Author
  Martin Schlumberger is Professor of Oncology at the University of Paris-Sud and member of its Scientific Council. He is the Head of the Unit of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Tumors and President of the Medical Commission at the Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR), Villejuif, France.

His main fields of interest are thyroid carcinoma and endocrine tumors. He is involved in multiple subjects, ranging from diagnosis, treatment with radioactive isotopes and chemotherapy to radiobiology, molecular biology and genetic predisposition. He is also actively engaged in the economic evaluation of strategies for medical treatment and follow-up.

He has published 125 articles in English peer-reviewed journals, including one review in the New England Journal of Medicine, 45 chapters of books and one book, Thyroid Tumors (coauthor Furio Pacini), first written in French, and then translated into English and into Russian. He has given invited lectures in 21 international meetings and more than 120 lectures in meetings.

He is expert at the European Commission for the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident and his Unit of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Tumors at the IGR is a WHO Reference Center for radiobiology of the thyroid gland.