Professor
Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, England
Board of Directors and Project Leader for STELLA, ICEC-CERN
Professor Manjit Dosanjh is the former senior advisor for medical applications at CERN and now a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and the Project Leader for STELLA (Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from UK and her professional efforts in medical applications span more than 30 years, during which she has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Europe and the U.S., including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the University of California, the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy. She joined CERN in 2000 and focused on applying the technologies developed for particle physics to the life sciences domain and establishing multidisciplinary collaborative approaches for cancer treatment. Her work has included many initiatives to expand access to technology in Low Middle-Income Countries and she is the Project Leader for STELLA (Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators) for ICEC (www.iceccancer.org). Manjit is also the Coordinator of ENLIGHT (European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy).
In addition, for over 20 years she has worked for civil society initiatives concentrated on raising awareness in disparities in access to STEM and highlighting the importance of STEM for empowerment and development. She is actively involved in helping non-profit health and science education and gender related organizations in the Geneva area and served as the UN representative in Geneva for an NGO in consultative status with ECOSOC for the Graduate Women International-International Federation of University Women for nearly 15 years. Currently she is on the board of directors for ICEC (International Cancer Experts Corps) based in Washington DC with ECOSOC status and a member of the CoNGO (Conference of NGOs) Board.
She is long term member of the NGO Committee on Status of Women Geneva for which she was the editor of the NGO-CSW Geneva Bejing+20 Platform outcome report. She has spoken often on the intersections of health, human rights, diversity and equality and role of STEM for bridging the gap.
