Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research

Since 1 January 2008, it is organized into two distinct entities: The ISREC has its origins in the history of the Centre anti-cancéreux romand (CACR), which was founded in 1924 in Lausanne.

Under the leadership of Rudolf Stadler (Chairman since 1951) and Henri Isliker (Director), ISREC was created on 18 June 1964 as a Swiss foundation.

The ISREC Foundation (President Yves J. Paternot) continues to seek and to provide resources to support projects having a broad potential of diagnostic or therapeutic innovation in cancer research.

Since its integration as an institute into the EPFL School of Life Sciences on 1 January 2008, and the renewal of a substantial part of its scientific staff, its research focuses on areas including genome stability, cell proliferation and differentiation, and the role of developmental pathways in tumorigenesis and tumor progression.

Between 1964 and today more than 2,000 articles were published by ISREC researchers in various scientific journals, notably in Cell, Nature and Science.

Since 2008, the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research is part of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . It is located on the Lausanne campus ( Switzerland ).