Mission

The ISREC has, for over 40 years of its existence as an independent institute, been devoted to cancer related basic research, before being integrated as an institute into the EPFL School of Life Sciences. With the renewal of a substantial part of its scientific staff in the recent past, its research focus has shifted to areas including genome stability, cell proliferation and differentiation, and the role of developmental pathways in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. The ISREC Foundation continues to raise and provide resources that are primarily aimed at supporting projects with a potential for diagnostic or therapeutic innovation.

The ISREC is also leading house of a National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in molecular oncology, a network research program launched by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The program focuses on questions relating to the interaction of tumors with their microenvironment. Its explicit goal is to support projects at the interface to the clinic.

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Featured Events

Date	March 24, 2010
Time	10H15
Speaker	Heiko Wurdak
From	ISREC Faculty Search Candidate
Title	"Neural Stem Cells and Small Molecules in Brain Physiology and Brain Cancer"
Location	SV 1717A
Host	ISREC / Prof. Doug Hanahan

Date	March 29, 2010
Time	10H15
Speaker	Elsa Quintana
From	ISREC Faculty Search Candidate
Title	"Understanding Melenoma Progression Through In Vivo Modeling"
Location	SV 1717A
Host	ISREC / Prof. Doug Hanahan