Professor, received his PhD from the University of Geneva
Bernard Thorens, Professor, received his PhD from the University of Geneva. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA) in the laboratory of Harvey F. Lodish. He came back to Switzerland to take a Career Development award from the Swiss National Science Foundation and to establish his laboratory at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the UNIL. He joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in 2005. His work on the molecular physiology of energy homeostasis has been recognized by several awards, including the Max Cloëtta Award, the Albert Renold award and the Claude Bernard award of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. His work has been supported by several Swiss and European grants, including European Research Council Advanced Research Grants; he coordinates Innovative Medicine Initiative Grants from the EU. He seats on the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He retired in 2024 and is presently Prof em of the University of Lausanne.
