Professor Winette van der Graaf, with a PhD on multidrug resistance in cancer, is head of the department of Medical Oncology and Group Leader in the Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam and holds her chair in transformative medical oncology at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 2015-2018 she was Teamleader Clinical and Translational Sarcoma research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and consultant in the sarcoma unit of The Royal Marsden Hospital in London. She raised and chairs the Dutch AYA ‘Young and Cancer’ network. She has published over 550 papers. She was chair of the Soft Tissue and Bone sarcoma Group from 2011-2014 and has been on the board of EORTC since 2015. She is president of the EORTC since February 2022. She is also board member of the European Cancer Organisation.