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.

See our Annual Report 2021 !

The ISREC Foundation has been promoting cancer research since 1964. The work accomplished by the supported scientists over the past decades has led to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying cancer and to the identification of novel therapeutic targets.

In the AGORA center, a true symbol of multidisciplinarity, more than 300 researchers and clinicians bring together the scientific and clinical skills needed to curtail the progression of a disease that affects an ever-increasing number of individuals. In this spirit, the ISREC Foundation now focuses its efforts on funding projects that bridge the gap between basic medical science and clinical practice.

As part of her “Hans Tuppy Lecture” at the University of Vienna, attended by Prof. Tuppy himself, an interview was conducted with Prof. Susan Gasser. The topic was “Remembering who we are: how chromatin controls cell identity”.

23rd edition of this race, organized by Team Girard.

Since 1998, the Club Team Girard, including owners, riders and fans of vintage motorcycles, organizes a yearly hill climb event for old-timers and donates part of the profits to the ISREC Foundation.