Géraldine Guasch

Project leader
Biography Géraldine Guasch received her Ph.D from Aix-Marseille University in 2002 with a prize for the best Ph.D of the year. Géraldine was a Human Frontier Science Program post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Elaine Fuchs, at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA from 2002 to 2005 and a post-doctoral associate from 2005 to 2008. During her graduate and postdoctoral research she established mouse models of genetic disease (leukemia and skin/anogenital cancers) that provide tools for our understanding of genetic susceptibilities, causes and treatments of various cancers.
From 2008 to 2015 Géraldine hold an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics position in the Department of Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, USA where she developed her own research group working on epithelial stem cells of various tissues. Since 2015, she is an Associate Professor with tenured (CR1) at the Inserm in the the Cancer Research Center in Marseille (CRCM) led by Professor Jean-Paul Borg.