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Sascha Hoogendoorn

Sascha Hoogendoorn (President)

Department of Organic Chemistry, UNIGE

  • Tenure Track Assistant Professor

About Sascha Hoogendoorn

Sascha Hoogendoorn was born and raised in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the group of prof. Herman Overkleeft at the University of Leiden. In her PhD work, she used synthetic chemistry to develop receptor-targeting small molecules to accomplish selective cellular entry. After obtaining her PhD with highest honors in 2013, Sascha moved to the Chen lab at Stanford School of Medicine, USA. There, she got fascinated by the Hedgehog signaling pathway and the organelle it requires, the primary cilium. She developed a genome-wide CRISPR-KO screening platform to identify genes involved in ciliary Hedgehog signaling. In January 2019, Sascha was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in the department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where she got promoted to associate professor in June 2025. She continues to work in the area of chemical biology to decipher and modulate ciliary signaling.

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