About Sascha Hoogendoorn
Sascha Hoogendoorn is a newly appointed tenure-track assistant professor in the department of Organic Chemistry and the NCCR Chemical Biology at the University of Geneva. She received her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the group of professor Herman Overkleeft at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands in 2013. In her PhD work, she used synthetic chemistry to develop receptor-targeting small molecules to accomplish selective cellular entry. She then moved to Stanford University where she worked in the group of Professor James Chen as a postdoctoral scholar, and developed a novel CRISPR/Cas9-based screening methodology to study ciliary Hedgehog signalling.
In her lab she uses an interdisciplinary approach to study and perturb cellular signalling, with a particular interest in the primary cilium and the Hedgehog signalling pathway. Her research combines organic chemistry with cell biology and CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing to develop molecules that enable further dissection and manipulation of ciliary signalling.
Sascha Hoogendoorn is a member of the educational committee for the Master’s in Chemical Biology.
Read more about Sascha Hoogendoorn’s research on her lab website or follow her on Twitter.
Contact
University of Geneva
Department of Organic Chemistry
30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet
1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
Phone : +41 (0)22 379 60 85
Email: [email protected]
