Medizinische Fakultät

Universitätskliniken Inselspital

Department of Thoracic Surgery

Inselspital Bern

With its expertise, technical and medical equipment, and rapid integration of the latest research and study results into medical practice, the Department operates at the highest level. Thoracic surgery treats diseases and injuries of the chest wall and all organs within the chest cavity except the heart and aorta.

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Profile

  • Teaching students of medicine as well as graduate students at the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)
  • Identify the molecular mechanisms conferring resistance to clinical standard therapies, with the goal of unraveling druggable vulnerabilities - the ‘Achilles’ heel’ - of therapy-resistant cancer cells for the development of innovative strategies to treat lung cancer and MPM
  • Investigate how nucleotide/lactate metabolism and the DNA damage response machinery are linked to the tumor-initiating capacity and chemotherapy response of NSCLC cancer stem cells
  • Evaluation and therapeutic improvements of uniportal minimally-invasive thoracic surgery techniques
  • Investigation of different clinical and functional parameters with the aim of achieving better outcomes and improving patient comfort

External Partners

Universities of Basel, Vienna, Essen, Changsha (China), and Shanghai (China)

Grants

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_192648, IZSEZ0_195105, 310030_212766-1)
  • Swiss Cancer League (KFS-4265-08-2017; KFS-4851-08-2019, KFS-5405-08-2021-R)
  • China Scholarship Council (201606230238; 201708530258; 201606740067; 201808170004; 201906240084)
  • Stiftung zur Krebsbekämpfung
  • Grant from Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM)
  • Novartis grant