Professor Cathrin Brisken

Cathrin Brisken is Associate Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and part-time team leader at the Institute for Cancer Research. She obtained MD and PhD in Biophysics from the University of Göttingen, Germany, did postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, USA, and held appointments at the Cancer Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research. She was Dean of the EPFL Doctoral School and is currently member of the AACR Women in Cancer Research Council, International Breast Cancer Study Group Biological Protocol Working Group, Pezcoller Symposia Scientific Committee. She cofounded the International Cancer Prevention Institute