• SWISS CANCER CENTER Léman

    Innovation through interaction
  • SWISS CANCER CENTER Léman

    Innovation through interaction
  • SWISS CANCER CENTER Léman

    Innovation through interaction

Who we are

The SCCL – Swiss Cancer Center Léman brings together fundamental, translational and clinical cancer researchers from western Switzerland’s most prominent scientific and medical institutions. 

The federation of their skills and their resources place the SCCL at the cutting-edge of the fight against cancer and make it one of the few veritably integrated cancer centres in Europe.

Vision

At the SCCL, we rally our scientists and clinicians around three fundamental objectives.

Research

The SCCL includes over 80 research groups which collaborate with an extensive network…

Alliance

The SCCL represents five leading academic institutions and university hospitals of western Switzerland,…

News

Latest Posts

When researchers join forces in the fight against cancer

It’s often said that scientists and doctors are “waging war” against cancer. This kind of bellicose talk often frames discussions around a disease that affects more than 40,000 people and…

CD4 T – a new killer lymphocyte enters the ring

An alliance of researchers from member institutions of the SCCL discovers that CD4 T lymphocytes, which usually play a supporting role in fighting cancer cells, also have the power to…

Charting the immune landscape of brain cancers

For more than five years, Johanna Joyce and her team at the University of Lausanne have investigated the microenvironment of the major brain cancers in adults. As a result of…

Executive committee

Head of the Department of oncology UNIL CHUV. Professor of the Faculty of Biology and…

Head of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), part of EPFL’s School of…

Head of the Department of oncology HUG, Head of the Service of precision oncology HUG,…

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