Douglas Hanahan
douglas.hanahan@epfl.ch +41 21 693 06 57
EPFL SV ISREC CMSO
SV 2816 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
CH-1015 Lausanne
EPFL SV ISREC-GE
SV 2816 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
CH-1015 Lausanne
Domaines de compétences
Cancer; Translational onclogy; Genetically engineered mouse models of human cancer; Tumor microenvironment; Angiogenesis; Invasion; Metastasis; Pre-clinical trials
Biography
Douglas Hanahan, born in Seattle, Washington, USA, received a bachelors degree in Physics from MIT (1976), and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard (1983). He worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York (1978-88) initially as a graduate student and then as a group leader. From 1988-2010 he was on the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at UCSF in San Francisco. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2007), the Institute of Medicine (USA) (2008), the US National Academy of Science (2009), and EMBO (2010). In 2011, Hanahan received an honorary degree from the University of Dundee (UK).
