MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

Olivier is an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He combines 15 years of experience working on national and international research projects relating to molecular epidemiology of urologic cancers. He has established a large (#10,000) annotated biobank (germline-DNA, tumors) on urological cancers. He has provided new insights into the interactions between genetic and environmental factors in urological disorders, including translational developments for early diagnosis, companion biomarkers for theranostics as well as pharmacological or personalized prevention strategies.

He is the Chairman of the Strategic Urology Research Committee at the French National Cancer Institute. He is involved in numerous clinical research programs on urological cancers in France as well as in international genomic research consortia on urological cancers.

He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and has contributed to over 50 books, monographs. He is inventor of 8 patents.

He is actively involved as Chairman of the Scientific Board of a Prostate Cancer Patient Association, in Ethics Committees as well as expert in charitable foundations. He has provided counseling to pharmaceutical companies and has been an advocate of cancer research initiatives in the general public press.