Douglas Hanahan

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douglas.hanahan@epfl.ch +41 21 693 84 39

EPFL SV - HANAHAN Lab fl 5
Rue du Bugnon 25A
BU25A02262
1005 Lausanne

+41 21 693 84 39
+41 21 693 06 81
Office: SV 2815
EPFL > SV > ISREC > CMSO

Web site: Web site: https://hanahan-lab.epfl.ch/

EPFL SV SV-DEC PH-SV
SV 3807 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 06 81
Office: SV 3807
EPFL > SV > SV-DEC > PH-SV

Web site: Web site: https://sv.epfl.ch/professeurs-honoraires

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Fields of expertise

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).

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Lamprou Eleni, Li Haohua, Liu Yuchen, Yücel Simge,

Past EPFL PhD Students