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Two new appointments at the School of Life Sciences

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The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of two new professors at EPFL's School of Life Sciences.

The promise and limitations of organoids for scientific research

19.05.25NewsResearch

Organoids are a promising breakthrough that scientists have been exploring over the past 15 years. These three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from human stem cells stand to revolutionize some aspects of biomedical research, but they won’t do away entirely with the need for animal testing.

Research Team Led by Li Tang Wins Leenaards Foundation Science Prize

01.04.25NewsEPFL community

Two research groups in the Lake Geneva region have been selected for the 2025 Leenaards Science Prize, which comes with a total of CHF 1.4 million in award money. One of the research groups, led by Li Tang of the Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering (LBI) in EPFL's Institue of Bioengineering and Institute of Materials (both part of the School of Engineering), is exploring a new approach to overcoming cancer-cell resistance to immunotherapy.

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