Véronique Trillet-Lenoir

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Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (* 12). June 1957 in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon as Véronique Trillet; † August 9, 2023 was a French oncologist and politician (LREM). From 2023 she was a member of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and after the 2019 European elections she was a member of the European Parliament as part of the Renew Europe group.

Live life

Training
Véronique Trillet-Lenoir was born in Lyon on 12 June 1957, her father Marc Trillet was neurology professor, her mother Elisabeth assistant to the management. After her education she studied medicine at the Claude Bernard University Lyon. She completed the second section of medical studies in 1980, earned her doctorate in 1985 as Doctor of Medicine, in 1991 as Doctor of Human Biology, habilitated herself for the management of research and received a professorship in 1993.

Professional career
After working as an assistant doctor in the Lyon hospitals from 1981 to 1986, she worked as assistant clinic director until 1993 and subsequently as a hospital doctor in the pneumological department of the Louis Pradel Hospital for Cardiovascular and Pneumology in Lyon. In 1993 she was appointed Professor at the University of Lyon-I and Hospital Doctor at the University Hospital Lyon-Zentrum. In 2003 she founded the Department of Medical Oncology of the Hospital Group South. Since 2012, she has been Chair of the French Cancer Research Meetings and President of the Board of Directors of the Cancéropôle Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (CLARA) from 2013 to 2020. She also served on the board of the French National Cancer Institute.

In 2018, she was an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Jiaotong University Shanghai. She had been a guest at this university since 2011 and had participated in the establishment of the first master’s degree program in cancer therapy.

Politics
In the 2015 regional elections, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir was elected Regional Councillor for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on the socialist list led by Jean-Jack Queyranne. She supported Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 presidential elections and subsequently joined La République en Marche and the faction “La Région en marche” in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council.

For the 2019 European elections, her party LREM nominated her for the 17th. List space of the list connection Renaissance submitted together with MoDem and others. LREM won 22.4 percent, 23 of the 79 French parliamentary seats, so Trillet-Lenoir moved in directly. Together with her party colleagues, she joined the newly founded liberal group Renew Europe. For her group, she was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and an alternate member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

She was also a member of the intragroup MEPs Against Cancer, which she worked with