Gilles Salles, MD, PhD, was appointed Chief of the Lymphoma Service at MSK in 2020. He previously held the position of Professor of Hematology and Medicine at the University of Lyon and Head of the Department of Hematology at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, in Pierre-Bénite, France.
Dr. Salles obtained his medical degree and his doctoral degree in differentiation, genetics, and immunology from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1. He completed further training as a researcher in oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School.
Throughout his career, Dr. Salles has been especially interested in the clinical and biological study of lymphoma. The primary focus of his work is on the description and validation of prognostic factors and clinical trials in indolent lymphomas. His team has also examined several aspects of lymphoma biology, including T-cell and B-cell lymphoma models, signaling, and genomic biology of indolent lymphomas.
Dr. Salles has been involved in the investigation and development of new therapeutic agents such as targeted therapies, new monoclonal antibodies, and other immunotherapies in the field. He has led large international studies evaluating treatment options in patients with follicular lymphoma.
A member of several international societies, including the American Society of Hematology, Dr. Salles is also the author of more than 600 publications, including articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, The Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Lancet, Haematologica, Lancet Oncology, and Leukemia and Lymphoma.