Fanny Baran-Marszak
Teaching Practitioners
Fanny Baran-Marszak is a medical biologist and professor Ph.D. (2004), M.D. (2000). She is the head of the service and the lead clinical biologist in the molecular biology and biobanking sectors at the Hematology Laboratory at Avicenne Hospital (AP-HP). She is also a member of INSERM U1349. She has been qualified to conduct research since 2010.
The hematology laboratory consists of five sectors: cytology, hemostasis, flow cytometry, molecular biology, and cytogenetics.
The laboratory is a reference center for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and lymphoma diagnosis. The laboratory has developed flow cytometry, cytogenetics, optical genome mapping, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. The molecular biology sector is a national reference laboratory that investigates somatic mutations of immunoglobulin genes and prognostic mutations in CLL. One of the laboratory’s priorities is preserving primary cells for medical analysis and designing fundamental studies. Our quality-certified biobanking platform (Anatomopathology and Hematology) conserves more than 3,500 viable cells of CLL with clinical and biological annotations. Our research activities focus on cell signaling and the tumor microenvironment in B-cell lymphoma. Our international collaborations include ERIC (European Research Initiative on CLL), Thierry Soussi at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm working on TP53, Pascal Gélébart at the University of Bergen in Norway, Catherine Wu at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and Gael Roué at the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute in Barcelona.