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.

Congratulations to Prof. Elisa Oricchio – ISREC Foundation Chair in Translational Oncology from 2014 to 2020 – appointed Director of the ISREC Institute at EPFL SV. The ISREC Foundation is proud to have helped launch the career of this brilliant researcher.

In recognition of her exceptional commitment to scientific research, Prof. Susan M. Gasser, director of the ISREC Foundation, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva at this year’s Dies Academicus.
The ISREC Foundation is proud to be able to count on Prof. Gasser’s outstanding scientific expertise and offers her its sincere congratulations.

Once again, the SUR-SRP “Summer Research” program (July 4 to August 26), organized by the UNIL and the EPFL and supported by the ISREC Foundation, was a huge success. The students were thrilled to discover AGORA. We hope that this once-in-a-lifetime experience will open up new horizons for them.

Read the interview with Benoît DUC, an MD-PhD candidate in Prof. Johanna Joyce’s laboratory whose research is supported by the ISREC Foundation.
Benoît’s PhD project addresses challenges in the field of lung cancer brain metastasis, the final stage of cancer progression, when tumor cells have successfully spread to a new organ and colonized it.

Congratulations to Prof. Ping-Chih Ho on being awarded a Helmut Horten Foundation grant. The ISREC Foundation is pleased to have contributed to the launching of his career by supporting his professorship in Immune Engineering.

The first TANDEM grant call received 28 applications from clinician-basic researcher pairs across Switzerland, each jointly addressing a question of direct clinical relevance, from two angles: that of understanding molecular mechanism and of directly improving cancer patient care.

The awardees include 6 women (of 13), participating in Tandem teams from Zurich, Bern, Lausanne and Geneva. Interinstitutional, as well as interdisciplinary projects took the day, with the recipients of this generous grant planning to collaborate intensely between bench and bedside.