Dr Esma SAADA-BOUZID is a medical oncologist based in Nice. After completing her medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Nice, France, she joined the medical oncology team at the Antoine Lacassagne Center, which is the Cancer Centre for the city of Nice. Her areas of expertise include the management of patients with head and neck cancer, sarcomas, or brain tumours. Since 2016, she has been coordinating the Molecular Tumour Board of the Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur East region and leading the unit dedicated to early-phase trials at the Antoine Lacassagne Center. Holding a doctoral degree in sciences (PhD in Genomics of solid tumours) and a Habilitation to Direct Research (defended on the topic of personalized medical treatments in head and neck oncology), she has been directing the Translational Research Laboratory in Oncology at the University Cote d'Azur since 2021. She is currently supervising a PhD student working on the topic of HRAS targeting. As an author or co-author of over 100 original articles or reviews published in peer-reviewed journals on PubMed, her SIGAPS score is 970 points, and her H-index is 22 as of November 1, 2023.