Lausanne University Hospital is one of the five university hospitals in Switzerland, with Geneva, Bern, Basel and Zurich. With its 16 clinical and medico-technical departments and their numerous services, the CHUV is renowned for its academic achievements in health care, research, and teaching.

The CHUV is also a well-known center of medical education and research thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Together, these institutions form a vast campus in the Lake Geneva region.

Department of oncology UNIL CHUV

The Department of oncology UNIL CHUV has numerous fundamental research groups, led by scientists and physician-scientists. Their fields of expertise include:

• Cancer vaccine development
• Clinical tumor biology & immunotherapy
• Computational cancer biology
• Computational oncology & molecular modeling
• Computer-aided molecular engineering
• Immunometabolic regulation
• Immunosenscence and stem cell metabolism
• Human integrated tumor immunology discovery engine (Hi-TIDe)
• Lymphocyte function
• Targeted immunotherapies for hematologic malignancies
• T cell biology and engineering
• Tumor microenvironment
• Translational tumor immunology
• Radiation oncology
• Vascular and tumor biology