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Chair of cancer mission looking to build ‘collegial body’

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Walter Ricciardi, Italian professor of preventative medicine, has taken on leadership of EU advisory board

The new chair of the advisory board for the EU’s planned R&D mission on cancer has told Research Professional News that he is inspired by the makeup of the board and its collective “immense expertise”.

Walter Ricciardi, previously a deputy chair on the board, has been appointed by the European Commission to succeed Harald zur Hausen, whose departure due to personal reasons was announced on 8 October. 

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