Mona Mohsen MS, Ph.D., DPhil

Dr. Mona Omar Mohsen, MS, Ph.D., DPhil is a Research Associate at the University of Bern. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in biomedical science from Qatar University (2015). She received a graduate student award at Qatar University Annual Research Forum (2015). She completed an intensive summer internship at MD Anderson-Texas (2015) as well as a one-year program (cancer biology and therapeutic approaches) at Harvard Medical School (2016-2017). She has pursued her DPhil studies at the University of Oxford. She received her DPhil degree in clinical medicine from the University of Oxford, UK (2018).

Since 2020, she became an independent senior researcher and a group leader in cancer immunology/immunotherapy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She has been awarded several grants for developing novel personalized breast-cancer vaccines and cancer immune enhancers based on virus-like particles in different cancer models such as melanoma, breast carcinoma, and head and neck carcinoma. She is a Co-investigator on a grant by the Swiss Cancer League and received several Industrial funding.