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Prof. Piccart is currently the Immediate Past Chair of BIG, and President of BIG against breast cancer, the unit within BIG dedicated entirely to raising funds to support BIG’s research.

A strong advocate for and leader of international research collaborations, Prof. Piccart, together with Prof. Aron Goldhirsch, co-founded in 1996 the Breast International Group (BIG) to foster collaboration and accelerate the development of better breast cancer treatments. The organisation, which became a legal entity in 1999, is now chaired by Prof. David Cameron and unites 57 academic breast cancer research groups from around the world. About 30 clinical trials and research programmes are run or in development under the BIG umbrella at any one time, and several of BIG’s past studies are already considered landmark and practice-changing.

She graduated as a medical doctor from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1978, where she also met her future husband, Dr. Michael Gebhart. She obtained her internal medicine certification at the ULB in 1983. After she graduated she worked as a fellow for two years with Prof. Franco Muggia at New York University Medical Center (1983–85). Returning to Brussels, she worked for Prof. J. Klastersky, head of internal medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute. She became certified in European medical oncology in London in 1989, and earned her PhD from the ULB in 1993.

Martine J. Piccart-Gebhart, MD, PhD, (born 1953) is a Belgian medical oncologist. She is a professor of oncology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and scientific director at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium. She is also a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.