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Hegi, Monika E.

Monika Hegi obtained a Master’s degree (1986) and a PhD (1989) in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. She pursued post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH, RTP, NC, USA (1989-93), and moved as research associate to the Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich in 1993. In 1989 she was nominated director of the Lab for Brain Tumor Biology and Genetics, Neurosurgery, CHUV. Since 2009 she is Associate Professor for Translational and Experimental Neuro-Oncology. She has been coordinator for translational research of the brain tumor group of the European Organisation for Research Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) since 2003.