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EPFL Life Sciences

@epflSV

The official account of EPFL's School of Life Sciences in Lausanne, Geneva and Sion 🇨🇭 We tweet in EN&FR. @EPFL_en

 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Joined August 2017
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Gioele La Manno wins Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology actu.epfl.ch/news/gioele-la-… #epfl
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Four ERC Advanced Grants to EPFL's School of Life Sciences actu.epfl.ch/news/four-erc-a… #ERCAdG
Four ERC Advanced Grants to EPFL's School of Life Sciences

Four ERC Advanced Grants to EPFL's School of Life Sciences

Four professors at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences, Gisou van der Goot, Felix Naef, Alexander Persat, and Pavan Ramdya, have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Gisou van der Goot actu.epfl.ch/news/american-a… #epfl
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Gisou van der Goot

American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Gisou van der Goot

EPFL professor Gisou van der Goot has been elected into membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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🧠🏆@GioeleLaManno receives the Boehringer Ingelheim @FENSorg Research Award actu.epfl.ch/news/gioele-la-… #EPFL
Gioele La Manno receives the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award

Gioele La Manno receives the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award

EPFL neuroscientist Gioele La Manno has received the 2026 Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award for his contributions to our understanding of how the brain develops.

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When light boosts protein evolution actu.epfl.ch/news/when-light… #epfl
When light boosts protein evolution

When light boosts protein evolution

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

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Three promotions in the Life Sciences actu.epfl.ch/news/three-prom… #epfl
Three promotions in the Life Sciences

Three promotions in the Life Sciences

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Among them, Elisa Oricchio (ISREC), Jacques Fellay (GHI) and Bruno Correia (IBI) have been...

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EPFL joins $25 million research on cancer avoidance actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-joins… #epfl
EPFL joins $25 million research on cancer avoidance

EPFL joins $25 million research on cancer avoidance

Jacques Fellay’s lab at EPFL will lead data integration and analysis within the Cancer Grand Challenges ATLAS team, selected to investigate why some high-risk individuals never develop cancer.

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A two-layer safeguard for stem cell identity actu.epfl.ch/news/a-two-laye… #epfl
A two-layer safeguard for stem cell identity

A two-layer safeguard for stem cell identity

EPFL researchers uncover how two proteins work together to prevent stem cells from activating the wrong genetic programs.

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Pioneer factors steer chromatin remodeling for gene accessibility actu.epfl.ch/news/pioneer-fa… #epfl
Pioneer factors steer chromatin remodeling for gene accessibility

Pioneer factors steer chromatin remodeling for gene accessibility

Researchers at EPFL uncover how the pioneer factors OCT4-SOX2 and the BAF remodeling complex coordinate their actions on nucleosomes to regulate DNA accessibility.

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Electrical charges control gene expression actu.epfl.ch/news/electrical… #epfl
Electrical charges control gene expression

Electrical charges control gene expression

Researchers at EPFL reveal how subtle electrical properties of key gene‑regulating proteins shape how efficiently they find and activate genes inside cells.

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Juan Manuel García-Arcos joins EPFL as Ambizione Fellow actu.epfl.ch/news/juan-manue… #epfl
Juan Manuel GarcĂ­a-Arcos joins EPFL as Ambizione Fellow

Juan Manuel GarcĂ­a-Arcos joins EPFL as Ambizione Fellow

Juan Manuel García-Arcos has joined EPFL’s School of Life Sciences as an SNSF Ambizione Fellow, where he will carry out an independent research project hosted in the lab of Professor Pierre Gönczy.

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Congratulations to Carmen Sandi who has received the 2025 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award! 🧠🏆 actu.epfl.ch/news/carmen-san…
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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10 awarded honorary doctorate by @UCC 🎓 #EPFL Read more actu.epfl.ch/news/carmen-san…
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🎤Our interview with Professor Markus Jeschek @JeschekLab actu.epfl.ch/news/we-might-t…
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Andrea Ablasser wins the 2025 Paul Marks Prize from @MSKCancerCenter! 🏆 #paulmarksprize2025 actu.epfl.ch/news/andrea-abl…
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🎉Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10 wins the 2026 Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award🏆 actu.epfl.ch/news/carmen-san…
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Join us on October 30, 2025 for the next Life Sciences BioCore Seminar Series at EPFL and discuss spatial omics for fundamental and clinical research! Full program and info: memento.epfl.ch/event/unlock…
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🧬 EPFL researchers and collaborators engineered dendritic cell progenitors with a custom receptor (EVIR) that helps them “cross-dress” with tumor antigens to boost anti-tumor immunity in experimental models. 📄 Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Dendritic cell progenitors engineered to express extracellular-vesicle–internalizing receptors...

Dendritic cell progenitors engineered to express extracellular-vesicle–internalizing receptors...

Nature Communications - Tumour-antigen-pulsed mature dendritic cells (DC) have not been as efficient for cancer therapy as hoped to be, due to their sub-optimal antigen-presentation and migration...

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Applications are open for the SV Summer Research Program 2026! 👉 8 weeks of hands-on research for BA and MA students in neuroscience, cancer, bioengineering & global health + mentoring and social activites 📅 New Deadline: 15 Nov 2025 Apply now: epfl.ch/schools/sv/education…
EPFL School of Life Sciences Summer Research Program

EPFL School of Life Sciences Summer Research Program

Cutting-edge research ranging from life sciences engineering to quantitative biology at the shores of Lake Geneva.

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Mapping the lipid blueprint of life in 4D actu.epfl.ch/news/mapping-th… #epfl
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