Douglas Hanahan

Expertise Cancer; Translational onclogy; Genetically engineered mouse models of human cancer; Tumor microenvironment; Angiogenesis; Invasion; Metastasis; Pre-clinical trials Douglas Hanahan, born in Seattle, Washington, USA, received a bachelor’s 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 Eleni Lamprou, Haohua Li, Yuchen Liu Past EPFL PhD Students Leanne Li, Julie Laetitia Scotton, Mohammad Sadegh Saghafinia, Morgane Marie Lecointre, Simge Yücel Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Lambert Charles François Potin, Gabriele Galliverti, Agnieszka Alicja Chryplewicz Awards Distinguished Scholar of Ludwig Cancer Research network 2020 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society Royal Society (UK) 2023