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The Swiss Cancer Center - Leman (SCCL) is an alliance against cancer forged between several academic and clinical institutions: the University Hospital of Lausnne  (CHUV), the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), as well as privileged partners (see below). This alliance brings together, under a united and regional identity, all the specialists involved in the path from bench to bedside. Focusing their efforts on emerging fields within oncology, the partner institutions intend to develop innovative strategies such as immunotherapy and precision oncology to achieve personalized and predictive medical strategies that will ultimately revolutionize patient care. The SCCL conducts its research in a network of laboratories located within its constituent institutions.


Executive committee

The SCCL Executive Committee is composed of the senior directors in oncology of its partner institutions: * Professor
George Coukos George Coukos (born December 23, 1961) is a physician-scientist in tumor immunology, professor and director of the Ludwig Cancer Research Lausanne Branch and director of the Department of Oncology UNIL-CHUV of the University of Lausanne and the ...
, Head of the Department of oncology UNIL CHUV * Professor
Douglas Hanahan Douglas Hanahan (born 1951) is an American biologist, professor, and Director Emeritus of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research at EPFL (École polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a Distinguishe ...
, Director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) at EPFL * Professor
Pierre-Yves Dietrich Pierre-Yves is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Pierre-Yves André (born 1974), retired French footballer * Pierre-Yves Barré (1749–1832), French vaudevillist and songwriter * Pierre-Yves Bény (born 1983), French gymnast * ...
, Head of the Department of oncology HUG UNIGE


The AGORA building

The Agora, the flagship building of the Swiss Cancer Centre - Leman (SCCL), embodies and puts into the practice the central vision of the SCCL has for cancer science and medicine. A FLASH radiotherapy device for treatment of cancers resistant to conventional treatments is developed together with
CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
and THERYQ (Alcen Group) and will be installed at the CHUV. The first clinical trials are planned for 2025.


Other

In 2016, the
University Hospital of Lausanne The Lausanne University Hospital (, CHUV), in Lausanne, is one of the five university hospitals in Switzerland. The Lausanne University Hospital is linked to the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (UNIL). The CHUV' ...
inaugurated a cell production laboratory for
cancer immunotherapy Cancer immunotherapy (immuno-oncotherapy) is the stimulation of the immune system to treat cancer, improving the immune system's natural ability to fight the disease. It is an application of the basic research, fundamental research of cancer im ...
on the Biopôle campus (
Épalinges Épalinges (; ) is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Lausanne (district), Lausanne in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne. History Épalinges is first m ...
). Nathalie Jollien
"Nouveau laboratoire d'immunothérapie à Lausanne"
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'', 15 September 2016 (page visited on 16 September 2016).


See also

*
Lausanne campus The Lausanne campus or Dorigny university campus (French: ''campus lausannois'' or ''campus de Dorigny'') is a large area in Switzerland where the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and several o ...


Notes and references

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