Anja Lachenmayer studied medicine at the University Hamburg, Germany, where she developed an early interest in hepatobiliary disease and completed her experimental doctoral thesis in the field of hepatobiliary surgery. After training in general and visceral surgery at the University Hospital Duesseldorf, Germany, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Llovet at the Mount Sinai Liver Cancer Program in New York, USA, studying molecular approaches for the diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of primary liver cancer. Since 2015, Anja Lachenmayer has been working at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine at Bern University Hospital, where she obtained her board certification in visceral surgery and currently holds the position of Associate Professor. Her clinical and research focus is on minimal invasive surgical and local ablative therapy of liver tumors, with a particular emphasis on stereotactic image guidance. Anja Lachenmayer is the principal investigator of several clinical trials in the field of local ablative and systemic therapy for liver cancer and leads a translational liver cancer research group focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation-Based Strategies for Liver Cancer Treatment.
