Education
Galon received his Doctor of Philosophy degree (Doctorat ès science) with specialty in immunology in 1996. and did postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Health (National Institutes of Health), in Bethesda (United States of America) between 1997 and 2001. Since 2001, he has been working at the Cordeliers Research Center, where he has been the Director of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale Laboratory Integrative Cancer Immunology since 2009.
Career
He is first class Research Director (DR1) at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale). and did postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Health (National Institutes of Health), in Bethesda (United States of America) between 1997 and 2001. His work aims at a better understanding of the tumor microenvironment and the dynamics of the immune response in humans tumors. His laboratory has identified and demonstrated the importance of the immune contexture against cancer.
He defined the Immunoscore as a new method for routine clinical assessment of prognosis of patients with cancer.