A warm "benvenuto" to Prof. Michele De Palma...
© 2011 EPFL
Professor at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, in Milan, and group Leader at the Istituto scientifico universitario San Raffaele (It), Michele de Palma will soon join the ISREC, one of the four research institutes at the EPFL School of Life Sciences; he will hold a position of tenure track assistant professor for the life sciences.
His research work addresses the vascularization of tumors – a key question in cancerology. A tumor, when in the growth phase, has to “re-program” its environment so that the blood vessels develop and divide around the tumor. In parallel, he has developed new approaches relating to viral gene therapy, which allow the specific treatment and elimination of particular cell populations associated with tumors.