Team - Computational Cancer Genomics

Team and Collaborators

The Computational Cancer Genomics Team (IARC-WHO)

Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta

Team leader – Biology/Biochemistry (ORCID, Google Scholar)

Matthieu Foll

Team leader – Computational Biology (ORCID, Google Scholar)

Nicolas Alcala

Team leader – Statistics (ORCID, Google Scholar)

Alexandra Sexton-Oates

Scientist – Biology/Biochemistry (Google Scholar)

Catherine Voegele

Data analyst – Bioinformatics (ORCID, LinkedIn, Google Scholar)

Lisa Bonheme

Postdoc – Machine learning/AI (ORCID, Google Scholar)

Tiffany Delhomme

Consultant – Bioinformatics (ORCID, LinkedIn, Google Scholar)

Gabrielle Drevet

PhD student – Surgery

Laurane Mangé

PhD student – Computational Biology (ORCID, Google Scholar)

Lipika Kalson

PhD student – Computational Biology

Yuliya Lim

PhD student – Computational Biology

The Computational Cancer Genomics team at IARC-WHO is a multicultural and multidisciplinary team including bioinformaticians, data scientists, and molecular biologists from four different nationalities, and piloting large international consortia. It is a vibrant environment ideal for a student willing to pursue an international career in medical bioinformatics or data science to gain experience in state-of-the-art bioinformatics (reproducible workflows interacting with High-Performance Computing facilities) and big data analysis (modern statistics and machine learning) covering most of the spectrum of ‘omic approaches used in medical genomics. Team alumni pursued their career in world-leading medical research institutions (Barcelona Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Calgary, Stanford University), at IARC-WHO, and in private companies (bioMerieux).

Collaborators

Talya Dayton

Organoids – EMBL Barcelona, SP

Françoise Galateau-Salle

Pathology – Centre Léon Bérard, FR

Thomas Walter

Oncology – Hospices Civils de Lyon, FR

Jean-Yves Blay

Oncology – Centre Léon Bérard, FR

Jules Derks

Oncology – Maastricht University, NE

Jean-Michel Maury

Surgery – Hospices Civils de Lyon, FR

Severine Tabone-Eglinger

Biobank – Centre Léon Bérard, FR

Justo Castaño

Biology/Biochemistry – IMIBIC, FR

Mauro Cives

Tumor immunology – University of Bari « Aldo Moro », IT

Nuria Lopez-Bigas

Driver genes – IRB Barcelona, SP

Ernst-Jan Speel

Biology/Biochemistry – Maastricht University, NE

Ludmil Alexandrov

Mutational signatures – UC San Diego, USA

Alex Di Genova

Long-reads sequencing – O’Higgins University, Chile

Noah Rosenberg

Cancer Evolution – Stanford University, USA

Jaehee Kim

Cancer Evolution – Cornell University, USA

Luka Brcic

Pathology – Med Uni Graz, AUS

Julien Mazieres

Oncology – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, FR

Aurel Perren

Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, CH

Ilaria Marinoni

Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, CH

Rocio Garcia-Carbonero

Oncology – Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, SP

Michaël Duruisseaux

Oncology – Hospices Civils de Lyon, FR

Sébastien Couraud

Oncology – Hospices Civils de Lyon, FR

Mauro Giulio Papotti

Pathology, University of Turin, IT

Giuseppe Pelosi

Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, IT

Marek Grzes

Artificial Intelligence, University of Kent, UK

Vera Pancaldi

Atsuko Kasajima

Cyril Degletagne

Networks

  • – LungNEN network:
  • CHU Caen, CHU Nice, CHU Nancy, HCL Bron, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, IRCCS Milan, IRCCS Rotondo, Medical University of Graz, Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue Paris, University of Turin, Oslo University Hospital, Maastricht University Medical Centre
  • – LYRICAN+
  • – COALA

Sequencing facilities

  • Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH, CEA), FR
  • Sequencing platform of the Centre Léon Bérard, FR
  • Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, DE