- The Board manages the Foundation and ensures that its assets are used to meet the objectives of the Foundation.
- The Board adopts the regulations necessary for its own running and the running of the Foundation in general.
- The Board establishes the budget for each accounting period and publishes an annual written report on its management. It approves the annual Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account.
Hervé Bouhry
Bio
Prof. Hervé Bourhy graduated as a veterinarian and, in 1992, completed his PhD at the Paris Sorbonne University on the consequences of lyssavirus diversity on diagnosis, epidemiology and prophylaxis. He is also trained as a clinical biologist in human medicine (Ministry of Health). Prof. Hervé Bourhy is currently based at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.He heads the Global Health Department, the Lyssavirus, Epidemiology and Neuropathology Laboratory, the WHO Collaborating Center for Rabies Reference and Research and the National Reference Center for Rabies. He has contributed to many WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies and is a member of the WHO Rabies advisory panel. He has also provided expertise to other international bodies (ECDC and WOAH). He is involved in many training and teaching activities (Master degrees with French Universities, MOOCs). He is coordinating the International Course on Rabies Control and Elimination co-organised with WOAH, WHO and HSET (8 editions already completed). His research activities mainly aim to generate a paradigm shift in the way rabies is monitored, studied and controlled, bringing it into the era of One Health and Precision Public Health. His work focuses on questions relating to disease persistence and dispersion, reservoir dynamics (dogs, bats), crossing of the species barrier and modalities and physiopathological consequences of the neurotropism of viruses such as rabies virus and SARS-CoV-2 and development of new antiviral strategies against the rabies virus and SARS-CoV-2. These research activities are done in close collaboration with many partners and colleagues in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, including the Institut Pasteur International Network and are supported by national, European (ECDC) and international fundings. He has published more than 210 papers in peer reviewed international journals. (https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/herve-bourhy/)
Contact:
e-mail: herve.bourhy@pasteur.fr
Jean Gruenberg
Bio
Jean Gruenberg’s main interest was to study the morphogenesis of sub-cellular organelles and the mechanisms that control intracellular membrane dynamics. He is also a member of LipidX (Systems Biology of Biomembranes) supported by the Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology.
Contact:
e-mail: Jean.Gruenberg@unige.ch
Phone: +41(0)22 37 93464
Address: Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biochemistry
Uyen Huynh-Do
Bio
Uyen Huynh-Do is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern. She was trained as an MD at the University of Zurich, then specialized in renal physiology and hypertension. From 1996 to 1999 Uyen Huynh-Do joined the Division of Nephrology and the Vanderbilt Center for Vascular Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2004 she was appointed Assistant Professor, and in 2008 Associate Professor at the University Hospital of Bern. In 2009 she received a Master of Medical Education (MME) from the University of Bern and the Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the director of the interuniversitary PhD and Postdoctoral programme IKPP (Integrative Kidney Physiology and Pathophysiology) supported by both the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Union (Marie Curie FP7 Co-Fund).
Sanjiv Luther
Bio
Sanjiv Luther studied cell biology at the ETH in Zürich. He received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Lausanne for his work on anti-viral immune responses in the Ludwig Institute for cancer research. Thereafter, he performed postdoctoral studies at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of California San Francisco, investigating the role of chemotactic factors in lymphoid tissue development and function. In 2003 he joined the Department of Immunobiology (formerly Biochemistry) as Assistant Professor funded by a career-development award from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2009 he became Associate Professor and in 2021 Full Professor. His longstanding research interest focuses on a better understanding of secondary lymphoid organs in immunity, particularly on the roles played by the resident fibroblastic stromal cells. Since 2003 he teaches bachelor, master and PhD students at UNIL, particularly in topics of immunology, using traditional lectures, exercises and practical work. Since 2009 he directs the biomedical master specialization in ‘immunology and cancer’, and in collaboration with HSeT introduced various elements of e-learning into the teaching curriculum.
Contact:
e-mail: sanjiv.luther@unil.ch
Phone: +41 21 692 5678
Meera Manraj
Bio
Meera Manraj qualified in General Medicine at the Université d’Aix Marseille II, France in April 1988 and was employed 3 months later at the SSR Centre for Medical Research & Studies, University of Mauritius. She was registered in PhD studies at the University of Mauritius from 1996 to 2002 and was able to benefit from training for several months, through a World Bank funding, at the CNRS UPRES 8090 in a research project ““Insulin Resistance: Search for Candidate Genes with Reference to Patients with Early Myocardial Infarction” under the supervision of Professor Philippe Froguel.
PhD was awarded in 2003. When the research centre became part of a newly created Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Science of the University of Mauritius in 2004, she was mostly involved in teaching of modules in the BSc (Hons) Medical Science programme, a pre-clinical programme of 3 years duration that been initiated in 1998, and which was run in partnership with two UK universities and subsequently with a French university. In 2011 she was involved as a link Coordinator in the setting up of a full-fledged undergraduate medical programme, the curricular contents of which were largely inspired from the programme run by the University of Geneva with which the University of Mauritius signed a memorandum of Understanding since 2013. She was mostly responsible for the setting up and the running of the first part of the programme as the Bachelor of Medicine Coordinator. Three cohorts registered in the undergraduate medical programme offered in English medium have been able to graduate so far, the first cohort has recently been able to successfully register with the Medical Council of Mauritius.
Jean-Pierre Michel
Bio
Dr. Jean-Pierre Michel, MD, is emeritus professor of medicine and former head of the academic geriatric department (Geneva Hospitals and Medical University) He is also honorary professor of Medicine at Limoges University (F) and Beijing University Hospital (CN) as well as adjunct professor at Mac Gill University (Montreal – Ca).
He co-founded the European Academy for Medicine of Aging (EAMA) in 1992, the Academia Latinoamericana de Medicina del Adult major (ALMA) in 2001, the Middle East Academy of Medicine of Ageing (MEAMA) in 2002, the Asian Academy for Medicine of Ageing (AAMA) in 2011 and the South Est Asia Academy of Geriatrics in 2018. After several years of work as ambassador of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics-World (IAGG-W) for Asia and the Middle East, he is now acting as Director of the IAGG-W Federation of Geriatric Education (2017).
He is the recipient of many awards (City of Vienna life achievement award, China Foreign Friendship Award- giving a talk at the Great People Hall in Beijing on this exceptional occasion, World award for his long life and global achievement in geriatric medicine.
He was the editor-in-chief its peer review journal European Geriatric Medicine, is now Honorary editor-in-chief of the Geriatric journal and associate editor of Aging.
Elected as a full board member of the French National Academy of Medicine in 2012, he is currently acting in its International Committee. He has been appointed as WHO expert of the “Aging and Life course” program since 1992 and was co-author of the 1st Global WHO report devoted on “Ageing and Health” launched in 2015. In 2016, he co-founded the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing EICA, was elected President In 2018, and is now part of the executive board. In 2018, he was welcome as member of the International Federation of Aging scientific committee.
In 2018 he was the 1st editor of the Oxford textbook of Geriatric Medicine (3rd Ed), which got an Award by the British Medical Association. In 2019, he edited two Springer books untitled “Healthy Ageing: midlife prevention of age-related disability” (Doody score **** 95/100) and “Adult vaccines”. As chairperson of the working group established at the EU 28 level by the Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA), he was the chairperson of an interdisciplinary review report on “Transforming the future of ageing” (2019). In 2021, He was asked to update as first editor the Oxford textbook of Geriatric Medicine and he set up an International online training in Gerontology and Geriatrics: IAGG e-TRIGGER.
Contact
e-mail: jean-pierre.michel@unige.ch
Phone: 00 41 79 77 83 742
Address:
40A route de Malagnou
CH -1208 – Genève
Mathieu Nendaz
Bio
Mathieu Nendaz is an internist at the Geneva University Hospitals and trained in health professions education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is presently also Director of the Unit of Development and Research (UDREM) and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests include Internal Medicine and Medical Education. In this field, he is particularly interested in decision-making, clinical reasoning, clinical supervision, and interprofessional issues. He is deeply involved in direct teaching, clinical supervision and training, as well as in the development and organization of teaching concepts and medical curriculum.
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/udrem/fr/equipe/direction/nendaz/
Contact:
e-mail: Jean.Gruenberg@unige.ch
Phone: +41(0)22 37 93464
Address: Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biochemistry
Walter Reith
Bio
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
Frédéric Rochat
Bio
Dr. Frédéric Rochat was admitted as an attorney-at-law to the bars of the Canton of Vaud (2002) and New York (2005). He is a partner at the law firm of Carrard & Associés in Lausanne, Switzerland, specializing in corporate and contract law. In parallel he teaches law at various institutions.
Prior to joining Carrard & Associés in 2007, Frédéric earned his law degree in 1996 from the universities of Lausanne and Berne. While working as a teaching and research assistant in the fields of contract and securities law he obtained his doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 2002. He completed his two-year attorney traineeship and worked as an associate for one additional year in a business law firm in Lausanne, before leaving for the U.S. to obtain an LL.M. degree from Columbia University. From 2004 to 2007 he worked in the M& A and securities departments of the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York (2004-2005) and London (2006-2007).
François Verrey
Bio
François Verrey is Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the University of Zurich. After high school in Zurich and medical school in Lausanne, he acted as ICRC delegate in Israel and resident in Internal Medicine at the CHUV. He then worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, the ISREC and Columbia University, and started 1991 his own research group at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Zurich. He became Professor in 2001 and was director of the Institute from 2006-2014. He was vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, member of the research council of the SNSF and founder and director of the National Center of Competence in Research Kidney.CH until 2018. His research centered around epithelial transports in kidney and intestine, mainly regarding aldosterone-regulated sodium transport, and later transport and role of amino acids. Currently he is mainly engaged in the HSeT Foundation and as director of the Swiss Kidney Foundation.
Contact
e-mail: francois.verrey@uzh.ch
Address: Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich