EPFL research groups
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Cathrin Brisken
Breast cancer, mouse genetic, mammary gland development, mouse models, patient derived xenografts, estrogen and progesterone, endocrine disruptors
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Michele De Palma
Tumor-associated macrophages, tumor angiogenesis and antiangiogenic therapy Immunotherapy, microRNAs, exosomes and extracellular vesicles, mouse models of cancer, immune cell engineering, lentiviral vector technologies
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Douglas Hanahan
Cancer, translational oncology, genetically engineered mouse models of human cancer, tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, invasion, metastasis, pre-clinical trials
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Joerg Huelsken
Tumor heterogeneity and stemness in cancer
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Freddy Radtke
Notch, stem and progenitor cells, self-renewing tissues, differentiation, cancer, genetic mouse models
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Elisa Oricchio
Cancer genetic, mouse models, therapy, stem cells, lymphoma
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Wouter Karthaus
Endocrine cancers, endocrine therapy resistance, stem cell biology, organoid technology
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Sebastian Waszak
Computational neuro-oncology, biomedical data science, clinical cancer genomics, diffuse midline glioma, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, medulloblastoma, genetic tumour syndromes
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Nicolas Thomä – Paternot Chair
Chemical biology, structural Biology, gene expression, oncogenic fusion proteins DNA-bound macromolecular machines, molecular glues, expanding the druggable space in cancer
Affiliated research groups
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Giovanni Ciriello
Cancer genomics & evolution, cell plasticity, chromatin 3D architecture, computational biology
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Christoph Merten
Microfluidic technology develpment, single cell analysis, antibody discovery, personalized cancer therapy
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Andrea Ablasser
DNA sensing, inflammation, antitumor immunity, cGAS-STING pathway
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George Coukos
Tumor immunology, T-cell therapies, cancer vaccines, bioinformatics and engineering, clinical trials
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Tatiana Petrova
Transcription, differentiation, cancer stem cells, intestinal and vascular development, lymphedema, cancer