Eric Van Cutsem trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology in Leuven and specialised later in GI oncology in Leuven, Belgium. He is currently Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Leuven and is head of the Digestive Oncology Unit at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven. He is also a board member of Leuven Cancer Institute and of the Department of Oncology at the University of Leuven.
He has a large clinical activity in Leuven and is involved and leads many national and international clinical and translational research projects on gastrointestinal cancer.
Prof. Van Cutsem has published more than 340 peer-reviewed articles (on pubmed; H-factor: 70; >20000 citations) in prestigious journals including New England Journal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet, Lancet Oncology, JAMA, Annals of Oncology and European Journal of Cancer. He is co-editor of the reference textbook on gastrointestinal cancer: Principles and Practice of Gastrointestinal Oncology: Second edition, 2008, and is/has been an editorial board member of numerous prestigious journals, including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, and European Journal of Cancer and is associated editor of Targeted Oncology and editor of European Journal Cancer since January 2011.