President, PhD, Emeritus Professor University of Geneva President of the Board
Dr. Walter Reith is an honorary professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. He is currently active in the scientific advisory board of several nonprofit foundations offering research funding grants and research career prizes in biomedical sciences (Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation, Private Foundation of the University Hospitals of Geneva, Swiss National Science Foundation) and is president of a nonprofit organization developing international online teaching programs in the health sciences (Health Sciences e-Training Foundation). He is also cofounder of a company – xSeedD – of which the mission is to develop novel early-stage drug-development programs. The bulk of his academic career was pursued at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, where he was full professor of molecular biology and immunology, director of the department of Pathology and Immunology, and research group leader investigating the regulation and function of antigen presentation and antigen presenting cells in health and disease. He studied biology and received a PhD degree in molecular biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva.
Contact e-mail:Walter Reith Phone: +41 79 250 3539 Address: Faculty of medicine, University of Geneva 1 rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
