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Manolis Kogevinas: The Cancer Research Programme

"My main general goal is to do research that matters"

As head of the Cancer Programme at ISGlobal, Manolis Kogevinas focuses his research on evaluating both environmental and occupational exposures and their interaction with genetic factors in relation to cancer, respiratory diseases and child health. He has more than 25 years of experience in epidemiology and is one of the founders of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), which merged with ISGlobal in 2015. Dr Kogevinas is currently director of the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) and president of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).