Year of birth: 1946

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BIOGRAPHY

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, PhD MD (h.c), is among the leading geneticists in research on molecular biology of breast cancer. She is Professor Emerita and previous head of Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, and Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at University of Oslo. In collaboration with groups at Stanford University, the group of Børresen-Dale was among the pioneers in expression profiling of breast carcinomas. They indeed demonstrated that breast cancer can be divided into distinct sub-groups with differences in molecular profiles and associated with significant differences in overall and relapse-free survival.

The achievements of Børresen-Dale have been seminal for understanding breast cancer evolution and have significantly shaped our understating of the complexity of breast cancer. Børresen-Dale was also director of the K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research with a major funding from the K.G. Jebsen Foundation in the period 2011-2016. She was acknowledged by many awards, such as the AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research in 2015. In addition, she was appointed to Commander of the Royal Norwegian St. Olavs Order by the King of Norway in 2017.