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Jean-Marie Brucher is a Professor Emeritus at the Catholic
University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. Trained both in neurology and
anatomopathology, he taught neuropathology at UCL and was director
of the Neuropathology Laboratory at the UCL University Clinics in
Louvain, then in Brussels, until 1995, when he was named Professor
Emeritus. After studying with Prof. P. van Gehuchten (Louvain),
then A. Biemond and J. Bethem (Amsterdam), he joined the well-known
German-speaking neuropathology school of G. Peters and G. Kersting
(Bonn), K.J. Zülch and W. Wechsler (Cologne), and worked in close
collaboration with L.J. Rubinstein (Stanford and Charlottesville
Universities). He was a member of the two international expert
committees that prepared the 1979 and 1993 editions of the W.H.O.
Histological Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous
System. Since 1982, he has been a pathologist-reviewer for the
EORTC Brain Tumor Group and a member of the editorial board of
several scientific journals, including "Neuropathology and Applied
Neurobiology" and "The Journal of Neurology". Prof. Brucher is the
author or co-author of over 300 publications. He is currently a
consulting neuropathologist at the Academic Hospital of the Free
University of Brussels, the Institute of Pathology and Genetics in
Loverval, and the Notre Dame and Reine Fabiola Hospitals in
Charleroi and Montignies-sur-Sambre, Belgium.
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