Dr. Olivier Michielin

Biography

Professor Olivier Michielin obtained a Master's degree in Physics in 1991 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a medical degree from the University of Lausanne in 1997. He pursued PhD training under the supervision of Jean-Charles Cerottini at the Ludwig Institute and Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 2013. He was appointed Group Leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in 2002 and became an Assistant Professor at the Medical Faculty of Lausanne in 2004. In parallel, he trained as a medical oncologist and obtained board certification in 2007 from the Department of Oncology at the Lausanne University Hospital. Professor Michielin mainly focuses on translational precision oncology, developing new molecularly defined therapeutic approaches based on original bioinformatics techniques developed in his laboratory and precision oncology programs employing multi-omics strategies at a national level. He currently chairs the Department of Oncology and the Precision Oncology Service at the Geneva University Hospital, leads the Precision Oncology Center of the Lausanne University Hospital, and co-directs the Swiss Cancer Centre Léman. Professor Michielin is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher, with multiple papers ranking in the top 1% for citations over the past decade.

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