christian Schürch
Professor
Department of Pathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Dr. Christian M. Schürch is a physician-scientist with twenty years of experience in basic and translational cancer immunology research, focusing on hematological malignancies and the tumor microenvironment. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and is board certified in surgical pathology by the Swiss Medical Association. Dr. Schürch was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Garry Nolan’s lab at Stanford University, USA, where he worked on high-dimensional tissue imaging of human and murine immune organs and cancer tissues using high-multiplex microscopy. He also worked on the application of computer vision and deep learning to big microscopy imaging datasets. Currently, Dr. Schürch is full professor of pathology, senior consultant pathologist, and principal investigator at the Department of Pathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany. Dr. Schürch’s lab focuses on understanding the role of the tumor microenvironment in (immuno)therapy response in solid and hematological malignancies, including human tumors, in vitro tumor models, and mouse models.