Dr. Inti Zlobec

Head of the Translational Research Unit (TRU), University of Bern, Switzerland

Inti Zlobec received her PhD in Experimental Medicine (Pathology) from McGill University in Montreal. By combining her interests in pathology and biostatistics, she has developed biostatistical models for prediction of response to preoperative radiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer and optimized workflows for biomarker analysis. In 2011, she received the title of ‘Privatdozentin’ from the University of Basel. Today, Inti Zlobec works as Associate Professor at the University of Bern, where she leads the Translational Research Unit and Tissue Bank Bern. She is Chair of the Working Group IT for the European Society of Pathology and President of the Swiss Consortium for Digital Pathology (SDiPath). Her research group includes a multi-disciplinary team using experimental methods and digital pathology to gain insights into the biology of colorectal cancers, their molecular subtypes, prognoses and therapy responsiveness with the aim of improving patient management.