EORTC Membership Committee (MC)

The Membership Committee (MC) was created and approved by the Board in November 2004.

Since then, EORTC membership has been subject to a ‘location criterion’ restricting membership to ‘geographical Europe’ due to administrative and logistical complexity. However, centres from Mediterranean countries (e.g. Turkey, Israel and Egypt) which had been members of the EORTC before the ‘location criterion’ was introduced may continue to be members of the EORTC under condition that they perform and provide support for any administrative, regulatory and logistical organization to EORTC Headquarters.

However, new institutions located outside ‘geographical Europe’ which are not members of the EORTC are invited to collaborate in so-called ‘EORTC Intergroup studies’ (See EORTC POL 005).

Intergroup studies are decided on a case by case basis according to the capabilities of the potentially collaborating groups, i.e., whether these groups contribute sufficiently to the studies by engaging a large number of centres with a significant number of patients.


Members

Chair A.M.M. Eggermont, Rotterdam (NL)
Secretary A. Marinus, Brussels (BE)

T. Conroy, Vandoeuvre les Nancy (FR)
T. de Witte, Nijmegen (NL)
J.W. Leer, Nijmegen (NL)
F. Meunier, Brussels (BE)
R. Mirimanoff, Lausanne (CH)
J. Vermorken, Edegem (BE)

New membership in the EORTC is organized in a centralized procedure:
any new applicant (institution / member) must submit a membership application to the Membership Committee. The Membership Committee assesses the application in question according to the following criteria:
• track record of research of the institution / member;
• status of available medical facilities of the institution / member;
• availability of qualified personnel for clinical trial management of the institution/member;
• the potential benefit for other EORTC institutions/members that the applying institution/ member might provide.

Lastly, the Board grants membership on the basis of a report issued by the Membership Committee in collaboration with the EORTC Chairs of the relevant EORTC Groups.

For further information regarding membership, please contact the EORTC Membership Committee
at the following address: Avenue Mounier 83/11, B-1200 Brussels
E-mail: membership[at]eortc.be


Last updated 27-08-2009