Jean-Pierre Bourquin

Jean-Pierre Bourquin
EducationMedicine (MD) (1992)
MD-PhD (1996)
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Known forFunctional Precision Oncology
Drug Response Profiling (DRP)
Transcriptional and epigenetic dependencies in high-risk leukemia
AwardsWalter and Gertrud Siegenthaler Research Award (2011)
Kind-Philipp-Award (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsPediatric oncology
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Precision medicine
Cancer Research
InstitutionsUniversity Children's Hospital Zurich
University of Zurich
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Thesis Infection prophylaxis in chronic granulomatous disease: clinical efficacy of co-trimoxazole and recombinant human interferon gamma  (1997)
Doctoral advisorReinhard Seger
Other academic advisorsStuart Orkin
Websitehttps://www.kispi.uzh.ch/kinderspital/person/bourquin-md-phd-jean-pierre

Jean-Pierre Bourquin is a Swiss pediatric oncologist. He is a Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the University of Zurich and the Chief Physician (Chefarzt) of the Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology and Cellular Therapies at the University Children's Hospital Zurich. His research focuses on the oncogenic transcriptional, epigenetic and posttranscriptional mechanisms in childhood leukemia and translation in innovative therapies and precision precision medicine. Since 2026, he is the director of the Swiss National Competence Center for Research "Children & Cancer" funded by the SNFS.