Medical Research Positions
Former Scholarship Holders
Prof. Joel Zindel
Inselspital Bern
University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine
Duration: 01.05.2023 - 31.08.2025
Project: "Mesothelial cell recruitment in injury repair and post-surgical adhesion formation"
Aiman S. Saab, Prof.
University of Zurich
Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Duration: 1 June 2019 – 30 September 2020
Mentor: Prof Bruno Weber
Project: “Impact of neuron-glia metabolic coupling on brian function, plasticity and aging”
Britta Maurer, MD
University Hospital Zurich
Department of Rheumatology
Duration: April 1, 2018 - December 31, 2020
Mentor: Prof Oliver Distler
Project: "Early diagnosis and disease monitoring of systemic autoimmune disorders with molecular targeted imaging"
Grégory Verdeil, MD
University of Lausanne
Department of Oncology and Ludwig Cancer Research Center
Duration: August 01 2017 - January 31 2021
Project: "Finding and characterizing of new targets to overcome T cell exhaustion for immunotherapy of cancer"
Salvatore Piscuoglio, Prof.
University of Basel and University Hospital Basel
Department of Biomédicine / Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology
Duration: 01.07.2021 – 31.12.2023
Project: “Biomarker identification to guide surgical intervention after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer”
Alexandre Theocharides, PD
University Hospital Zurich
Clinic for Hematology
Duration: 01.06.2015 - 30.09.2021 (suspended Sep 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020)
Mentor: Prof. Markus G. Manz
Project: The role of cell-extrinsic factors in hematopoietic stem cell malignancies
Sophie Croizier, Prof.
University of Lausanne
Center for Integrative Genomics
Duration: 01.09.2021 – 31.07.2024
Project: Stress regulation of energy metabolism
Wendy Wei-Lynn Wong, MD
University Zurich
Institute for Experimental Immunology
Duration: 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2020
Project: 1) Blood cell development 2) Relevance of IAPs and RIPKs in disease models 3) Mechanism separating cytokine driving vs cell death
Prof. Paula Nunes-Hasler
University of Geneva
Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism
Duration: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2024
Project: Exploring the ER-phagosome connection during antigen cross-presentation
Mathias M. Hauri-Hohl, MD
University Children's Hospital Zurich
Department for Stem Cell Transplantation
Duration: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2020 (suspended Apr 1 - Aug 2018)
Mentor: Prof. Felix Sennhauser
Project: Strengthening Thymic Function in Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Recipients