NICOLAS GIRARD

Nicolas Girard is a pneumologist specializing in thoracic oncology, for the treatment of patients with lung cancer or rare thoracic cancers. His expertise ranges from the development of perioperative strategies in resectable tumors, to the management of locally-advanced disease and oncogene-addicted tumors, especially EGFR-mutant NSCLC. He is experienced in the treatment of thymic tumors—thymomas and thymic carcinomas—as part of his work in the RYTHMIC network. He is domain leader for rare thoracic cancers for the European Reference Network EURACAN.

Nicolas Girard is involved in several clinical and translational research projects aiming at improving the treatment of these cancers. 

He is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Versailles Saint Quentin University, Paris Saclay Campus. He is the Head of the Curie-Montsouris Thorax Institute, and Chair of the Medical Oncology Departement at Institut Curie in Paris.

Nicolas Girard co-authored more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals.