Alumni
Alumni
Leila Akkari
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2011-2017
Current position: Assistant Professor, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michelle Ballabio
Master Student: 2021-2022, Research Assistant: Feb-Aug 2022
Current position: Field Application Specialist at SUN Bioscience, Lausanne
Katherine Bell-McGuinn
Clinical Fellow: 2005-2007
Current position: Vice President, Head, Oncology Early Development at AbbVie, USA
Nir Ben-Chetrit
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2015-2016
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Landau lab, Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, USA
Robert (Bobby) Bowman
PhD Student: 2011-2016
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Xiaoping Chen
Research Technician: 2007-2015
Current position: Senior Research Technician, Anti-tumor assessment facility, MSKCC, USA
Karen Cohn (Hunter)
PhD Student: 2008-2012
Current position: Vice President, Translational Science, Celmatix, New York, USA
David Croci
PhD Student: 2017-2021; Research Fellow: Winter 2021-Summer 2022
Current position: Scientist, Novigenix, Lausanne
Benelita (Tina) Elie
Research Assistant: 2008-10, 2013
Current position: Operations Research Analyst, Department of Defense, USA
Laure Font
Master Student: March-August 2021
Current position: Research Assistant, AC Immune, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bedrick Gadea
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2008
Current position: Founder and partner of The Dedham Consulting Group, New York, USA
Alfred Garfall
Medical Student: 2006-2008
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vasilena (Leny) Gocheva
PhD Student: 2005-2010
Current position: Associate Director of Program Management, Break Through Cancer, USA
Marie Groth
Master Student: 2013-2014
Current position: Medical Advisor, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Germany
Jean Hausser
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2018-2019
Current position: Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Janneke Jaspers
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014-2015
Current position: Business Development and Technology Transfer, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Danxia Ke
Research Technician: 2005-2006
Current position: Clinical Project Manager, Hegenix Biotech., Inc. Houston, USA
Jemila Kester
Research Assistant: 2009-2011
Current position: Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Florian Klemm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014-2020
Current position: Senior NGS Scientist, SOPHiA Genetics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Mara Kornete
Lab Manager and Research Associate: 2018-2020
Current position: Manager of Agora Cancer Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
Joanna Kowal
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2016-2020
Current position: Senior Scientific Affairs Manager, Lunaphore, Lausanne, Switzerland
Johanna Lilja
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2021
Current position: Senior Scientist, Orion Pharma, Finland
Carmela Maffucci (Palermo)
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2006-2008
Current position: Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs, Johnson & Johnson, USA
Damien Marie
Master Student: 2020-2021
Current position: PhD student, Perentes lab, CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland
Marsha Mason (Quick)
Research Technician: 2012-2015
Current position: Associate Director of Program and Portfolio Management, Shape Therapeutics, Seattle, USA
Steven Mason
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2006-2010
Current position: Executive VP for Scientific Strategy at the Scienceomics Group, USA
Sina Nassiri
Bioinformatics Specialist: 2019-2020
Current position: Principal Bioinformatics Data Scientist & Team Leader, Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Oakley Olson
PhD Student: 2010-2016, Postdoc: 2016-2017
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow in Passegué lab, Columbia University, New York, USA
Stephanie Pyonteck
PhD Student: 2006-2012
Current position: Assistant Medical Director, Ogliviy Health, Pennsylvania, USA
Daniela Quail
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2012-2017
Current position: Assistant Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Augustin Roland
Master Student: 2021-2022
Bianca Santomasso
Clinical Fellow: 2014-2016
Current position: Assistant Attending Neuro-Oncologist, MSKCC, New York, USA
Vincent Schnorhk
Master Student: 2018-2019
Current position: Research Scientist, Ichnos Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alberto Jimenez Schuhmacher
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2009-2012
Current position: Assistant Professor, Biomedicine Center, Zaragoza, Spain
Lisa Sevenich
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2010-2015
Current position: Assistant Professor, Georg Speyer Haus Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
Nisarg Shah
Research Technician: 2015-2016
Current position: Lab manager, Bowman lab, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tanaya Shree
MD-PhD Student: 2006-2010
Current position: Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon, USA
Kenishana Simpson
Research Technician: 2006-2014
Deceased (2016) and dearly missed
Klara Soukup
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2017-2020, Lab manager: 2020-2022
Current position: Communications Officer, IUFRS, CHUV Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lucie Tillard
Research Technician: 2016-2020
Current position: Lab manager, Lutolf lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hao-Wei Wang
PhD Student: 2008-2013
Current position: Associate Research Physician, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Dongyao Yan
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2012-2016
Current position: Clinical Development Lead, Roche Pharmaceuticals, USA
Simona Ziakova
Master Student: 2019-2020
Current position: PhD student, University of Bern, Switzerland
Anoek Zomer
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2017-2022
Current position: Research Fellow, Veni Awardee, Prinses Maxima Centrum, Utrecht, Netherlands