Florence Duffaud (MD, PhD) underwent medical training and completed her medical oncology fellowship and residency at the University of Medicine of Marseilles, France. She completed a one-year fellowship at the EORTC data centre in Brussels. She is currently a Professor of Oncology at the University of Medicine of Marseilles, at Aix-Marseilles University (AMU), and the head of the medical Oncology Unit at La Timone University Hospital, in Marseilles. Her research interests are focused on novel therapies, and novel therapeutic strategies on soft tissues sarcoma, bone sarcoma and GISTs. She has led and/or developed multiple investigational clinical trials for soft tissues and bone sarcomas and GISTs as, principal investigator or site principal investigator. She serves on the French Sarcoma Group (FSG) board and is a member of the FSG and of the soft tissue and bone sarcoma group (STBSG) of the EORTC. She is reviewer for several oncological journals.

Prof. Florence Duffaud has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies: