Hugues de Thé holds the Cellular and Molecular Oncology Chair at the Collège de France and is a biologist at Hôpital St. Louis.He heads an INSERM/CNRS/U. Paris Diderot research unit at Hôpital St. Louis.
The 2018 Sjöberg Prize worth $1 million was awarded to oncology researchers Zhu Chen, Anne Dejean and Hugues de Thé. They succeeded in curing one of the deadliest forms of cancer with a treatment based on arsenic and retinoic acid. This method shows how cancer research is becoming increasingly targeted thanks to our better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the disease.
