Prof. Igor Tsaur is a urologist working at the University Medicine Mainz, Germany. After medical school at the University of Wuerzburg, he completed a clinical fellowship at its Department of General Surgery, and a research fellowship in the translational research lab of the University of Frankfurt Department of Urology. His main areas of clinical expertise are robotic and open surgery of the whole spectrum of genitourinary malignancies, as well as oncologic clinical trials and systemic treatment of advanced diseases.
Tsaur’s scientific research focus is prostate and penile cancer. He is involved in the EAU Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Prostate Cancer Working Group and the Urologic Research working committee of the German Society of Urology (DGU). He has published 167 Pubmed-cited articles and received multiple awards and grants including the Prostate Cancer Research Award of the DGU as well as funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Dr. Constance Thibault is a medical oncologist working at the European Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, France. After medical school and residency at Université de Paris, she specialised in the management of genitourinary malignancies. Her main areas of clinical expertise are bladder, prostate, and kidney cancers.
With regards to research, Dr. Thibault has gained an MSc from Université Paris-Saclay in 2013. She is currently a PhD student conducting translational research projects on bladder and prostate cancers. She is also a renowned trialist involved in many academic and pharmaceutical studies, leading her to join the faculty of the ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology) Prostate group. In addition, Dr. Thibault is an active member of the GETUG (Groupe d’Etudes des Tumeurs Uro-Génitales) providing guidance for the development of innovative trials in the onco-urology field. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Giancarlo Marra is an assistant professor and staff urologist at the Molinette Hospital, University of Turin, Italy. He trained in several different countries at renowned institutions, including King’s College Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, London, England, as well as the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, and Tenon Hospital, both in Paris, France.
Dr. Marra’s main expertise are in the field of uro-oncology, with a dedicated focus on prostate cancer, including minimally invasive surgical robotic treatments and focal therapy.
Dr. Marra has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and is an active reviewer for the major urological journals. He is member of several national and international research groups including the EAU YAU prostate cancer working group, the EAU-ESU group on imaging, focal therapy and pathology, and the Italian Committee for Good Clinical Practice – prostate cancer guidelines section. Dr. Marra has received several prizes for his research, among the latest are the best EUSP Clinical Scholar Award in 2022, and ‘Best Paper published in the field of robotic surgery’ in European Urology in 2023. Dr. Marra has been a presenter and an invited speaker at national and international congresses in Europe, China, and the US.