Presentation of ECERI
ECERI (European Cancer and Environment Research Institute) is an independent scientific research institute with a European dimension whose aim is to study medical and scientific links between cancer and environment.
This Institute aims also at studying the diseases linked to the environement, taking cancer as a model.
It is organized as a network of researchers, bringing together the leading research units, from different countries of Europe. Its legal status is an international non-profit association, established May 18, 2011 by royal decree in Belgium. It is headquartered in Brussels.
At the initiative of the project, Professor Dominique Belpomme, French cancer specialist, ARTAC (Association pour la Recherche Thérapeutique anti-cancéreuse), Jean Huss, Member of Luxembourg Parliament and President of the Commission of Environmental Health of the Council of Europe, Corinne Lepage, Member of the European Parliament, Paul Lannoye Honorary Member of the European Parliament, founder of the GRAPPE (Groupe de Réflexion et d'Action Pour une Politique Ecologique, Belgique), Roberto Romizi, Italian physician and President of the ISDE (International Society of doctors for the Environment), Paolo Tomatis, son of Lorenzo Tomatis, former Director of the IARC (International Agency for research on Cancer), Italie.
Its members : twenty research units spread throughout Europe, representing about 600 researchers involved in research projects.