Sebastian Waszak

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & University of California, San Francisco

WHO AM I 

Sebastian Waszak is an Assistant Professor of Life Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and an Associate Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He leads the Laboratory of Computational Neuro-Oncology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC). He obtained his PhD in Bioengineering and Biotechnology from EPFL in 2014 and specialized as a postdoctoral fellow in cancer genomics at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). His research is devoted to biomedical data science in pediatric neuro-oncology.

His group studies clinical cancer genomes and develops diagnostic approaches that are globally accessible and transformative for patients with gliomas. He published 80 scientific manuscripts in basic and clinical research journals and contributed to the latest edition of the WHO Classification of CNS Tumors and the WHO Classification of Genetic Tumor Syndromes. He is a member of the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC), the UCSF Pediatric DMG Tumor Board, and the DIPG/DMG National Brain Tumor Board.