Etienne Brain, MD with a board certification in medical oncology (1993), works at Institut Curie since 1998. After a fellowship in Boston (1996), he obtained a PhD (Université Paris V 2005), followed by a research supervision accreditation (HDR) (Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin 2010), and a diploma in management and health economics (Bocconi University, Milan 2015).
For more than 20 years, he has been involved in clinical research for breast cancer and cancer in older patients. He chaired the group GERICO (Unicancer) and the intergroup DIALOG labeled by INCa dedicated to clinical research for cancer in older persons. He chaired the breast cancer group of EORTC and is the EORTC Secretary General since 2021. He is an executive board member of the Breast International Group and past-president of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology.
He received the B.J. Kennedy Award for Scientific Excellence in Geriatric Oncology (ASCO 2022), the Michel Hery geriatric oncology Award (Monaco Age Oncologie conference 2023) and the Prix Albert 1er of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (Biennale Monégasque de Cancérologie 2024).