Born 1955, Swiss citizen, Prof. Dr sc. nat., Dr h.c. mult.
Member of the ETH Board since 2018.
Director of the ISREC Foundation at the AGORA Research Centre since February 2021.
Visiting professor at the University of Lausanne since 2021.
Susan Gasser studied Biology and Biophysics at the University of Chicago and obtained a doctorate at the University of Basel. She was group leader at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) from 1986 until she was appointed full professor at the University of Geneva in 2001. From 2004 until 2019, she was Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel. She was also a full professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel from 2005 to 2021. Since 2021, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne and the ISREC Foundation Director at the AGORA Research Centre. Gasser chairs the scientific advisory board of the Helmholtz Association health centres (research area health), is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Francis Crick Institute in London and a member of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL Council) in Heidelberg. From 2014 to 2019, she chaired the Gender Equality Commission of the SNSF.
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Francis Crick Institute, London
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Helmholtz Association Health sciences institutes
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Biozentrum der Universität Basel
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Schweizerischer Wissenschaftsrat (SWR)
Ausserparl. Kommission des Bundes(WBF)
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Max Planck Society
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UNIL, Lausanne
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Department of fundamental Microbiology
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Tokyo Tech, Tokyo, Japan
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ONCODE, Netherlands (Cancer research network)
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International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw
Polish Academy of Sciences
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Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Belgium
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ISREC Lausanne, Suisse
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UCB SA, Brussels, Belgium
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VI Partners, Altendorf, Schweiz
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RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Jp
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Tokyo University, Institute of Quantitative Biology, Tokyo, Jp
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CABIMER, University of Seville, Spain
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European Academy of Cancer Sciences
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Comité international d’orientation du Collège de France
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Swiss scientific representative on EMBL and EMBO Council
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