Swiss Cancer Centre

Swiss Cancer Centre - Leman
Centre suisse du cancer' - Arc lémanique
Established 2016
Field of research
 Oncology
Director Prof. George Coukos, Prof. Douglas Hanahan, Prof. Pierre-Yves Dietrich
Address Rue du Bugnon
1011 Lausanne
Location Lausanne, Switzerland
Affiliations CHUV, UNIL, EPFL, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and University of Geneva (UNIGE).
Website www.isrec.ch

Description

The Swiss Cancer Centre will be located in the west of the campus of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV).

The Swiss Cancer Center  - Leman (SCCL) is an alliance against cancer forged between several academic and clinical institutions: the University Hospital of Lausnne  (CHUV), the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), as well as privileged partners (see below)[1]. It sets out to rethink research in oncology by unlocking the power that resides in formative interactions between institutions and the development of collaborative expertise to improve outcomes[2].

This alliance brings together, under a united and regional identity, all the specialists involved in the path from bench to bedside[3]. Focusing their efforts on emerging fields within oncology, the partner institutions intend to develop innovative strategies such as immunotherapy and precision oncology to achieve personalized and predictive medical strategies that will ultimately revolutionize patient care[4].

The SCCL conducts its research in a network of laboratories located within its constituent institutions. The AGORA translational cancer research building in Lausanne, located close to the CHUV, will be an interdisciplinary ‘melting pot’ of laboratories tapped from all partner institutions for their envisaged synergies.

Executive Committee

The SCCL Executive Committee is composed of the senior directors in oncology of its partner institutions:

  • Professor George Coukos, Head of the Department of oncology UNIL CHUV
  • Professor Douglas Hanahan, Director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) at EPFL
  • Professor Pierre-Yves Dietrich, Head of the Department of oncology HUG UNIGE

Partner institutions

Supporting partners

The AGORA building

The Agora, the flagship building of the Swiss Cancer Centre - Leman (SCCL), embodies and puts into the practice the central vision of the SCCL has for cancer science and medicine.

By bringing together more than 300 physician-scientists, cancer researchers and bio-engineers under the same roof[5], it is creating an interactive community involving complementary insight and expertise organized into ‘thematic neighborhoods’ within a single site. Its innovative, open architecture with interaction spaces throughout aims to stimulate collegial exchanges across disciplines, and between researchers and clinicians. As a result, the building will act as an arena of innovation in the fight against cancer[6].

The visionary ISREC Foundation after having funded and overseen the construction of Agora, will continue to shepherd and inspire innovative translational cancer in the Agora building and the SCCL at large.  (The Agora translational cancer research building was inaugurated 03 October 2018.)

More information

Other

In 2016, the University Hospital of Lausanne inaugurated a cell production laboratory for cancer immunotherapy on the Biopôle campus (Épalinges).[7]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "A Lausanne, le centre de recherche sur le cancer ouvrira en 2018". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  2. ↑ "Un "Centre suisse du cancer" verra le jour à Lausanne en 2016". rts.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  3. ↑ "A Lausanne, le centre de recherche sur le cancer ouvrira en 2018". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  4. ↑ "L'Arc lémanique au cœur de la nouvelle révolution anticancer". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  5. ↑ "A Lausanne, le centre de recherche sur le cancer ouvrira en 2018". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  6. ↑ "Un centre suisse du cancer à Lausanne". 24heures.ch/. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  7. ↑ (in French) Nathalie Jollien, "Nouveau laboratoire d'immunothérapie à Lausanne", Le temps, 15 September 2016 (page visited on 16 September 2016).
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