Portrait Alexander Ring, Ph.D.

Alexander Ring, Ph.D.

Attending Physician, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology

Specialties

  • General oncology
  • Breast Cancer
  • Translational oncology

Contact

Tel. +41 43 253 08 04

Career

Since 2024 Attending Physician, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
2022 – 2022 Clinical Research Fellow, Molecular Oncology Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2018 – 2024 Resident, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
2017 PhD in Cancer Biology and Genomics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2012 – 2013 Postdoc, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2010 – 2012 Research fellow at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Los Angeles, USA
2009 MD Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
2007 – 2008 Research stay, University of Pittsburgh, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA

Most important memberships

  • ESMO

Research focus

  • Circulating Tumor Cells
  • Next generation liquid biopsies
  • Metastasis and micrometastasis targeted therapies
  • Precision Oncology

Further

  • ETH Pioneer Fellowship (Co-inventor)
  • Walter and Gertrud Siegenthaler Foundation Research Fellowship
  • USZ Estate for breast cancer research Clinical Research Fellow
  • California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Fellowship