Jean-Pierre Bourquin
Jean-Pierre Bourquin | |
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| Education | Medicine (MD) (1992) MD-PhD (1996) |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
| Known for | Functional Precision Oncology Drug Response Profiling (DRP) Transcriptional and epigenetic dependencies in high-risk leukemia |
| Awards | Walter and Gertrud Siegenthaler Research Award (2011) Kind-Philipp-Award (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pediatric oncology Acute lymphoblastic leukemia Precision medicine Cancer Research |
| Institutions | University 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 advisor | Reinhard Seger |
| Other academic advisors | Stuart Orkin |
| Website | https://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.