Portrait Sven Hillinger

Sven Hillinger
PD Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Other functions at USZ

  • Representative: Lung Transplantation Center

Specialties

  • Minimally invasive surgery
  • Tumor surgery
  • Smoking prevention and smoking cessation

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 41 04

Career

2013 Specialist FMH for Thoracic Surgery
Since 2010 Senior Attending Physician, Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich
2007 Habilitation
2005 Attending Physician, Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich
2002 Specialist FMH for surgery
1994 Promotion
1994 Approbation

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Society for Thoracic Surgery (SGT)
  • Swiss Society for Surgery (SGC)
  • German Society for Surgery (DGCH)
  • European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)
  • American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
  • International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

Research focus

  • Immunotherapy for bronchus carcinoma
  • Biomarkers in bronchus carcinoma
  • Lung transplantation

Further

Grants

  • 2015-2020 “Proteomics for Lung Cancer”
    Foundation for Applied Cancer Research (SAKF)
  • 2017-2020 “Lung Cancer Screening”
    Foundation for Applied Cancer Research (SAKF)