Portrait Holger Moch

Holger Moch
Prof. Dr. med. Director of the Institute, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology

Specialties

  • Molecular pathology
  • Uropathology

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 25 00
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Career

Current positions:

since 2004 Director, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
since 2004 Full Professor of Pathology, University Zurich, Switzerland

Education and academic experience:

2022-2023 Medical Co-Director (ad interim), University Hospital Zurich
2008 – 2021 Chairman, Operational Division of Medical Diagnostics, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
08./09.2001 Visiting Fellow. Harvard Medical School, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1995 – 2008 Staff (Attending Physician, Senior Attending Physician); Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
1994 Research Fellow; Division of Molecular Cytometry, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco; San Francisco; USA
1990 – 1993 Pathology Resident; Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel; Switzerland
1988 – 1990 Pathology Resident, Institute of Pathology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Memberships

Memberships:

2018 WHO Classification of Tumours; 5th Edition. Editorial Board Standing Member
2015 Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
2007 Member of the German Academy of Science “Leopoldina”

Patents

  • 08716518.9-2406 „Monoclonal human tumor-specific antibody“ (21.10.2009)
  • 08716519.7-2406 „Method of providing human tumor-specific antibodies“ (16.10.2009)
  • 10162783.4-2201 „Discrete states for use as biomarkers“ (5.7.2010)

Organization of conferences

2021 33rd European Congress of Pathology
2020 32rd European Congress of Pathology
2015 WHO-Symposium “Recent Advances in Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs”
2012 WHO-Symposium “Recent Advances in the Pathology and Genetics of Soft Tissue and Bone Tumors”
2012 Leopoldina Symposium “Autopsy and Religion”
2009 Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Symposium
2007 Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Symposium

Vested interests

Since Assignment Client City
01.01.2026 Verwaltungsratsmitglied, 2. Vizepräsident HOCH Health Ostschweiz St. Gallen
01.01.2026 Stiftungsratsmitglied Promedica Stiftung Chur
01.01.2026 wissenschaftlicher Beirat Sassella-Stiftung für Krebsforschung Zürich
01.01.2026 Stiftungsratsmitglied Julius Müller Stiftung Zürich