Véronique Trillet-Lenoir
Trillet-Lenoir in 2016
Member of the European Parliament
for France
In office
2 July 2019 – 9 August 2023
Succeeded byCatherine Amalric
Personal details
Born(1957-06-12)12 June 1957
Lyon, France
Died9 August 2023(2023-08-09) (aged 66)
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materClaude Bernard University Lyon 1

Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (French pronunciation: [veʁɔnik tʁijɛ lənwaʁ]; 12 June 1957 – 9 August 2023) was a French oncologist and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019. After joining the Parliament, Trillet-Lenoir was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Early life and education

Trillet-Lenoir was born in Lyon on 12 June 1957.[1] She studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.[2] She completed her medical studies in 1980, obtained a state doctorate in medicine in 1985, and a doctorate in human biology in 1991.[3]

Career

After obtaining her doctorate in medicine and following her medical internship, she worked with clinical scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. During that time, she took part in the development of predictive tests to ascertain the sensitivity of cancers to chemotherapy.[4]

In 1993, Trillet-Lenoir was appointed professor at the University of Lyon-I and hospital practitioner at the University Hospital Centre of Lyon.[5] In 2003, she became the founding head of the oncology department.[4]

Starting in 2013, Trillet-Lenoir served as president of the board of directors of the Cancéropôle Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (CLARA), a research cluster dedicated to cancer. She was also a member of the board of directors of the National Cancer Institute.[6]

Trillet-Lenoir became an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai in 2018. She visited the university from 2011, having contributed to the establishment of the first master's degree programme in oncology.[7]

Political career

Trillet-Lenoir became a member of the European Parliament in the 2019 elections,[8] starting her term on 2 July 2019.[1] She served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She later joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (2020)[9] and the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (2022).[10][11] She was also her parliamentary group's rapporteur on measures against cancer[12] and on the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).[13][14]

In addition to her committee assignments, Trillet-Lenoir co-chaired the MEPs Against Cancer group.[15] She was also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption.[16]

Death

Trillet-Lenoir died on 9 August 2023, at age 66.[17][18]

Recognition

References

  1. 1 2 "Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR, MEPs". www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. 12 June 1957. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Qui est Véronique Trillet-Lenoir ?".
  3. ↑ "RHÔNE. Qui est Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, députée européenne ?". www.leprogres.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, administrateur représentant les HCL". synergielyoncancer.fr..
  5. ↑ "RHÔNE. Qui est Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, députée européenne ?". www.leprogres.fr.
  6. ↑ "Le conseil d'administration – Instances". www.e-cancer.fr.
  7. ↑ "Signature d'une convention en cancérologie, entre les universités de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et la faculté de médecine de l'université Jiao Tong de Shanghaï". Archived from the original on 11 July 2019.
  8. ↑ CAZENAVE, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Parlement européen. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France ?". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  9. ↑ Members of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer European Parliament, press release of 9 July 2020.
  10. ↑ Members of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic European Parliament.
  11. ↑ Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees European Parliament, press release of 24 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Carlo Martuscelli (3 February 2021), Commission (finally) releases Europe's Beating Cancer plan Politico Europe.
  13. ↑ Peltier, Elian; Pronczuk, Monika (15 September 2021). "The E.U. adopts a new strategy to counter future pandemics". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  14. ↑ Giedre Peseckyte (11 November 2021) MEPs demand active participation in HERA's governance Euractiv.
  15. ↑ MAC MEPs in the 2019–24 legislature Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine MEPs Against Cancer.
  16. ↑ Intergroup on Anti-Corruption European Parliament.
  17. ↑ "La députée européenne française Véronique Trillet-Lenoir est morte à 66 ans". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  18. ↑ "Mort de l'eurodéputée française Véronique Trillet-Lenoir". Le Monde (in French). 9 August 2023.
  19. ↑ "Ordre de la Légion d'honneur – Nominations, promotions et élévations du 30-01-2008". www.france-phaleristique.com.
  20. ↑ "Recueil des actes administratifs 2015" (PDF).
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