Christine Sempoux

Christine Sempoux is Full Professor at the University of Lausanne and médecin cheffe at the Institute of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the CHUV where she is the Vice-Director and the pathologist responsible for gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and pancreatic surgical pathology.

She received her MD and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Louvain in Brussels (Belgium) and did her pathology training at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels. She completed her training by one year in the US and worked as an associate pathologist and professor in Belgium, prior to moving to Lausanne in 2014.

She devoted her research activities to endocrine pancreatic pathology in the first part of her career in Belgium. These studies paved the way of her interest and experience in genotype-phenotype correlations and in imaging analysis of histological slides.

In the more recent years, she focused her investigations on morpho-molecular correlations in liver tumors, mostly hepatocellular adenomas. Working closely within an international collaborative team, they contributed important advances in subtyping hepatocellular adenomas and in understanding their specific characteristics and individual risks of malignant transformation in various clinical contexts.

Member of international panels, reviewer, and associate editor for different journals in her field of expertise, she is also an enthusiastic teacher who was granted several awards. Since 2021, she is the Vice-Dean of Academic Career and Equal Opportunities at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne.