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.

The ISREC Foundation is pleased to support the next AGORA workshop dedicated to multimodal imaging.

Congratulations to Prof. Johanna Joyce and her teams for the publication in the distinguished Cell Reports Medicine journal. The study analyzed brain metastases, from lung or breast primary cancers and associated with different genetic alterations, to reveal distinct immune cell landscapes and phenotypes. The ISREC Foundation is proud to support this promising research.

Congratulations to Prof. Denis Migliorini, M.D., holder of the ISREC Foundation’s Brain Tumor Immunology Chair, and his team: along with Prof. Andrea Ablasser and Prof. Bruno Correira, they have been awarded funding through the BRIDGE Discovery Programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Prof. Migliorini’s area of research is the exploitation of the innate immune system for the improvement of the efficiency of CAR-T cells.

FLASH radiotherapy, an innovative and interdisciplinary technology, is perfectly in line with our goal of supporting translational cancer research.
The announcement of a collaboration for the development of the medical device represents another significant step forward in this project.
The ISREC Foundation is proud to contribute to this exceptional project thanks to a generous donation from the Biltema Foundation.

A study led by Professors Hanahan, Zeng, Saghafinia and Chryplewicz has uncovered a protein overexpressed in numerous cancer types that suppresses the effectiveness of immunotherapies. This discovery provides a basis for new therapeutic approaches.

We were very honored to welcome Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin to our annual conference on the challenges in cancer research.
This event was a great opportunity to draw attention to the significance and power of Swiss research, as well as to the fundamental role played by private foundations.
On this occasion, Mr. Parmelin had the opportunity to visit the AGORA research center and to exchange views with young scientists.