Alice Soragni, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery at CU Anschutz shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Time for some big, perhaps unexpected news. After fourteen years at UCLA, I am moving on to the next chapter, with intention and clarity. I am excited to share that I have joined the University of Colorado Anschutz as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery, inaugural Marsico Chair in Excellence in Functional Precision Medicine, and Director of the Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative within the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM).
UCLA has been my academic home since my postdoctoral years. It is where I built my laboratory, had the privilege of training an extraordinary group of students, researchers, and fellows, and developed a research program centered on functional precision oncology, rare tumors, and patient derived tumor models. I am immensely grateful to the mentors, collaborators, trainees, and patients who shaped this chapter. All of these stories continue, just in a different home. I am truly excited about what lies ahead.
At the University of Colorado Anschutz within the University of Colorado Department of Biomedical Informatics, my team and I are building something ambitious across two tightly connected efforts. My laboratory will continue to focus on developing and deploying patient derived tumor models to study the biology and treatment responses of rare cancers. In parallel, through the Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative within the CCPM, we are establishing the clinical and data infrastructure needed to translate these functional approaches into patient care at scale, including a CLIA-compliant laboratory designed to deliver point of care, organoid based functional precision medicine solutions. This structure will allow us to continue our existing science while substantially expanding translational and clinical impact.
I am energized by what lies ahead and by the exceptional community in Colorado that has already been so welcoming to me and to the extraordinary team relocating with me.
There will be more to say about my past experience in due time. I intend to share my story thoughtfully, in the hope that it may be useful to others navigating inflection points where alignment is critically important. For now, I want to thank those who made that chapter possible, and I am very much looking forward to what comes next.”
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