# Nicole Scobie

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## TL;DR

Patient advocate from Switzerland who chairs the board of ACCELERATE, the European multi-stakeholder platform speeding up new medicines for children and adolescents with cancer.

## Summary

Nicole Scobie is Chair of the Board of Directors of ACCELERATE, a multi-stakeholder platform bringing together academia, patient advocates, regulators and industry with the stated goal of making research into therapies for children and adolescents with cancer 'go further, faster'. The platform's leadership page lists her as a patient advocate based in Switzerland, alongside Vice-Chair Elizabeth Fox of St Jude Children's Research Hospital and Treasurer Sam Daems. The Scientific Committee is chaired by Gilles Vassal of Gustave Roussy, and day to day operations are run from a Brussels office. The page gives no appointment date.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; professional-society; philanthropy
- Role: Chair of the Board of Directors, ACCELERATE
- Specialisms: Patient advocacy; Paediatric oncology drug development; Multi-stakeholder governance

## Sources

- Source: ACCELERATE 'Our Leadership' page: https://www.accelerate-platform.org/our-leadership

## Connected records

- institutions: [ACCELERATE](https://onco.cc/institutions/accelerate-platform/)
- people: [Gilles Vassal](https://onco.cc/people/gilles-vassal/)

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