Susan Gasser, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist internationally renowned for her studies on genome organization.

Since February 2021, she is the Director of the ISREC Foundation for Cancer Research and the new AGORA Translational Cancer Research Center in Lausanne. For 15 years she directed the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and was full professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel. She is a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne since 2021.

She has been involved in guiding science policy and research institutions across Europe. Her numerous awards include the EMBO/FEBS and Weizmann Institute Women in Science Award. She is a strong advocate for women in science and chaired the Commission on Gender Equality of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

She was elected to the Académie de France, EMBO, Leopoldina, and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2022, she was named to the US National Academy of Sciences for furthering the understanding of genome stability.