Berend wins Jucker PrizeπŸ…

I’m honored to have been awarded the Ernst Th. Jucker Prize πŸ… for our work advancing Precision Medicine – with this I join a fantastic list of past awardees. At the risk of being repetitive, I have my amazing team to thank for this cool award- thank you snijderlab members past and present πŸ™!

The prize, named after Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker, honors outstanding contributions to cancer research. Dr. Ernst Jucker was a practicing physician and surgeon in the municipality of Thalwil in the canton of Zurich. He and his wife Alice transferred their inheritance to a foundation that provides an annual sum to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich (Ernst Jucker’s alma mater) to fund the prize.

I’ll give a public lecture with the award ceremony on the 30th of June 2025 – join if you’re in the neighborhood and curious to hear more about our work:

https://www.bioc.uzh.ch/en/calendar-of-events/agenda.html?event=63343

TuPro @ Nature Medicine

I am delighted to share that parts of our long-running Tumor Profiler study were published in Nature Medicine! Specifically, this paper provides a clinical utility analysis of the melanoma (skin cancer) subcohort, with the analysis led by the team of Andreas Wicki at the University Hospital Zurich.

We find that multi-omic molecular and functional profiling of tumors from patients with melanoma was feasible, returning data within four weeks and informing treatment recommendations in 75% of cases.

For more information, check out the news item at the ETH Zurich and the Tumor Profiler website.