Hampig Raphael KOURIE, MD, PhDAssistant Professor , Hematology-oncology department, Faculty of Medicine, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, LebanonHampig Raphael Kourie gained his medical doctor degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Saint Joseph University in Beirut Lebanon in 2010. He started his fellowship in Hôtel-Dieu de France, Saint Joseph University hospital in Beirut, Lebanon he continued his medical oncology fellowship in Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium from 2014 to 2016. Since September 2016, he worked in the digestive oncology department in Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou (HEGP) in Paris as a researcher in the Association des Gastro-entérologues Oncologues en France (AGEO). He is also certified from Paris Diderot Paris Descartes universities in hereditary cancers and digestive oncology. He gained his PhD in genetics from Saint Joseph University of Beirut in 2023 and his MEMS from ESA business school in 2023. He is practicing as hematologist-oncologist in Hôtel Dieu de France and Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix. He is actually an ESMO Faculty in the colorectal cancer group. He founded and directed the Middle East Biomarkers course and the Middle East and North Africa GI Oncology Summit. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, mainly in immunotherapy , oncogenomics and digestive oncology fields.