The Best of the AACR Journals Collection: Author Profiles

Catherine Alix-Panabières

Title & Affiliation:
Associate Professor
Director of the Laboratory of Rare Human Circulating Cells (LCCRH), Department of Cell and Tissue Biopathology of Tumors, University Medical Centre of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Most-cited Article:
Establishment and Characterization of a Cell Line from Human Circulating Colon Cancer Cells

Q: What is your primary area of study/research?
A: Immuno-virology; optimizing new techniques of enrichment and detection of viable disseminating tumor cells in patients with solid tumors

Q: What influenced your decision to embark on a research career?
A: To be a good researcher, it is important to be imaginative, creative and curious. I always dreamt of working in the biology field with a link to medicine to help patients.

Q; What excites you most about your research area?
A: My position at the Hospital and at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier (MCU-PH) is a wonderful mixture of teaching students in the Medicine & Sciences of Cancer Biology combined with developing this field of tumor cell dissemination at the hospital for cancer patients and leading strongly translational clinical research.

Q: What are your hobbies or passions outside of work?
A: Outside of work, I love sports and nature, and traveling is one of my favorite hobbies. Being with my family and friends is really important, and after biology, drawing is my second passion.