ISREC – Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research

“If I see a chance, I take it.”

Published:07.06.23 — Wouter Karthaus is a new Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL School of Life Sciences. Moving from chemistry to developing organoids, he now uses them to study cancer.

Douglas Hanahan elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Published:10.05.23 — EPFL Professor Douglas Hanahan has been elected among eighty researchers as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in the UK.

How genome doubling helps cancer develop

Published:28.03.23 — Researchers at EPFL and UNIL have uncovered a new way in which cancer can develop: whole genome doubling (WGD) changes the way DNA is organized in the 3D space, leading to the activation of oncogenes that drive cancer growth.