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Michele (Miki) De Palma is a tenured associate professor at the School of Life Sciences at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), specializing in cancer biology. He trained as a postdoctoral researcher and became a group leader at the Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, where he developed gene transfer strategies to engineer monocytes into anti-tumoral immune cells. This pioneering work led to the first-in-kind clinical trial for brain cancer. His research program focuses on tumor resistance to immunotherapy mediated by myeloid cells and angiogenic vasculature. The De Palma lab aims to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies by identifying novel mechanisms of therapeutic vulnerabilities in tumors. Miki has received numerous accolades, including an ERC programme grant in 2017 and the Robert Wenner Prize for cancer research. Outside of his academic pursuits, he studies the taxonomy of Scarab beetles from the family Cetoniinae.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland
Teaches courses on cancer biology and leads a research group focusing on tumor immunotherapy.
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