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Joerg Huelsken

joerg.huelsken@epfl.ch

EPFL SV ISREC UPHUELSKEN
SV 2823 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Tumor Heterogeneity and Stemness in Cancer
Prof. Joerg Huelsken received his PhD in 1998 at the Humboldt University and did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Walter Birchmeier at the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin. He joined ISREC as an associate scientist and an NCCR project leader in January 2003 and, in 2005, was nominated Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences.

Awards

Leenaards Prize

Leenaards foundation

2006

Pfizer Prize for Medical Research

2009

Swiss Bridge Award

2015

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Krishna Rasik Gajera, Pablo Hernandez Lopez, Laura Fabienne Wyss

Past EPFL PhD Students

Jean-Paul Abbühl (2014), Caroline Dafflon (2014), Nicolas Pierre Desbaillets (2017), Wan-Hung Fan (2012), Mathieu Girardin (2023), Angela Madurga Alonso (2023), Maxim Norkin (2021), Luisa Spisak (2022), Evelyn Susanto (2012), Zuzana Tatárová (2016), Candice Megan T Young (2023)

Courses

Cancer biology II

BIO-472

The course covers in detail the interactions of cancer cells with their environment with an emphasis on tumor-angiogenesis, inflammation, adaptive and innate immunity and cancer-induced immune suppression. Additional topics are cancer metabolism, cancer stem cells and metastasis.

Practical - Huelsken Lab (EDMS)

BIO-667

Assessment of signaling mechanisms in cancer. The objectives of the course are: - to understand the importance of signaling and cell-cell interactions in cancer stroma interactions - to learn techniques involved in assessing the function of such interactions in vitro and in vivo.