Manjit DOSANJH
Senior staff member, advisor for life sciences and deputy group leader in Knowledge Transfer | Suisse | CERN
Manjit DOSANJH is senior staff member, advisor for life sciences and deputy group leader in Knowledge Transfer at CERN. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, UK. She is actively involved in applying particle physics derived technologies in the field of life sciences. She is an experienced molecular biologist in mechanisms of cancer resulting from environmental exposure including radiation damage. She graduated in biochemistry/chemistry, she holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering and after her post-doctoral position at MIT, she has held positions at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, BEST professor Jackson State University, visiting professor at University of Padua and University of Cagliari. She is the Coordinator of ENLIGHT (European Network for Light ion Hadron Therapy) which is a multidisciplinary platform that aims at bringing together radiooncologists, physicists, biologists and engineers with experience and interest in particle therapy to enhance progress in this newly emerging field. Under the umbrella of ENLIGHT, there are currently four EC-funded projects: PARTNER, ENVISION and ENTERVISION, coordinated by CERN and ULICE, co-ordinated by CNAO. All these projects are directed towards the various aspects of developing, establishing and ptimising new techniques in cancer treatment. www.cern.ch/enlight
