January 23, 2025

CSEM and TheraMe! revolutionize cancer therapy with personalized drug screening technology

  • TheraMe! is a Lausanne-based medtech start-up at the forefront of advancing cancer treatment
  • TheraMe! employs proprietary microfluidic technologies to test the efficacy of cancer drugs on patients' tumor cells to determine the best therapy recommendation before treatment starts.
  • Together with CSEM, TheraMe! develops an instrument that analyzes live tumor samples to identify the best drug combinations for individual cancer patients
Group of 7 persons, members of the CSEM and the TheraMe teams
© CSEM - (from left to right) Mehmet SEHIR, Vida VAFAIZADEH, Hana SAMET (all TheraMe!), Christoph MERTEN (EPFL), Gilles WEDER and Baris ATAKAN (both CSEM) and Ngoc-Hien DU (TheraMe!)

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