​Prof. Dr.

Beat

Schäfer

2009: Right to award doctorates at the Faculty of Science
2004: Adjunct Professor at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich 
1997: Habilitation at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich «Multistip signaling in human cancer cells»
1886-1989: Postdoctoral researcht at Stanford University, USA
1983-1986: PhD thesis at Institute of Cell Biology ETH, Zürich
1977-1982: Studies of biochemistry at ETH Zürich 

• Scientific Reviewer for the following journals/foundations
• Grant Reviewer actitivies

• PhD Program in Cancer Biology, Steering and Admission Committee member (2009)
• EuroMRD board member (2010)
• chairman (since 2017) 
• Research Center for Children, University Children’s Hospital Zürich (2008)
• Member Scientific Committee Cancer League Switzerland (2012)
• Member of the Biology Committee for European Paediatric soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) (2014)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• German Pediatric oncology/hematology society (GPOH)
• European Haematology Association (EHA)
• European Study Group for Minimal Residual Disease (EuroMRD)
• Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich
• Competence Center Personalized Medicine UZH/ETHZ
• ITCC biology committee
• EpSSG biology committee
• CWS biology committee
• ITCC-P4 consortium

• Tumorigenesis of pediatric sarcoma with a special focus on oncogenic fusion transcription factors. 
• Drug response profiling of sarcoma using patient-derived ex-vivo models.

• OncoSuisse Research Grant (2021-23) 
• SNF Grant (2017-2021)
• BMBF Grant Epicycle (2021-2023)
• ITN Network Grant VAGABOND (2021-2024)
• EU IMI-2 program Grant ITCC-P4 (2017-2022)
• Novartis Foundation (2021)

• ORCID