Congratulations to Prof. Coukos on becoming a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Each year, the AACR honors scientists whose contributions have promoted innovations and significant advances in the fight against cancer.
The mission of the AACR, a global association consisting of renowned scientists, is to prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication, collaboration, science policy and advocacy, as well as by funding cancer research.

Congratulations to Prof. Elisa Oricchio (holder of the ISREC Chair in Translational Oncology from 2014 to 2020) and her research teams at EPFL: in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Ciriello’s group at the University of Lausanne they were able to elucidate how whole genome doubling can change the way DNA is organized.

Congratulations to Prof. Johanna Joyce on her publication in the prestigious journal Cancer Cell. The article, co-authored with Karin de Visser, is entitled “The evolving tumor microenvironment: From cancer initiation to metastatic outgrowth”.
This study addresses the interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment throughout disease progression. The ISREC Foundation is proud to support Prof. Johanna Joyce’s promising research.

From April 21st to May 1st 2023, Helder Amaral will participate in the MARATHON DES SABLES, a 7-day, 250-kilometer foot race in the Moroccan Sahara, during which the participants must be self-sufficient.
Mr. Amaral is not running for his personal achievement, but for a good cause: the funds he raises will be generously donated to institutions involved in cancer research, including the ISREC Foundation.
Many thanks to Helder Amaral for this incredible project. We wish him the best of luck

The Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award is presented at the annual congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR). It celebrates a cancer researcher who has demonstrated academic excellence and achievements in the field of cancer research and who has, through leadership or by example, furthered the advancement of women in cancer research.

Discover the SCCL – an alliance of institutions in the Lake Geneva region fighting against cancer.

Let us celebrate women scientists today and every other day of the year!
The ISREC Foundation is proud to contribute to the launching of the scientific careers of outstanding women.

Congratulations to Prof. Ping-Chih Ho, who has been appointed full professor at the University of Lausanne. Previously an associate professor, from 2023 onwards he will be responsible for both teaching and research, ensuring the training of the next generation of academics in his area of expertise, “immunometabolism and cancer immunology”.
The ISREC Foundation is pleased to have contributed to the launch of Prof. Ho’s career by funding his chair in immune engineering from 2013 to 2020.

World Cancer Day takes place every year on February 4 to unite the world in the fight against cancer. This day aims to raise awareness by spreading information concerning the disease.

Congratulations are in order for our director, Prof. Susan M. Gasser! She has been granted the Lelio Orci Award 2022 for her contributions to our understanding of telomeres, the role of nuclear pores for gene expression and DNA repair, and heterochromatin-mediated spatial genome organization.
This award, conferred annually by Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) since 2015, is granted by the Lelio Orci Fund. It recognizes exceptional achievements in the field of basic cell biology. Prof. Orci, who passed away in 2019, was an outstanding figure in the medical faculty of the University of Geneva, where he taught and conducted research for more than forty years. He was known for his work in electron microscopy, which made it possible to study the relationship between cell structure and function.
The ISREC Foundation is proud to be able to draw on Prof. Susan Gasser’s once again widely acknowledged scientific expertise.