Executive committee
The Executive Committee, consisting of four members of the Board, coordinates the projects supported by the Foundation, and allocates funds, under the supervision of the Foundation Board. The Executive Committee gives comprehensive information about its activity to the Foundation Board at each of its meetings.
Jean Gruenberg
PhD, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva
Biosketch
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
Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl
MD PhD, Emeritus Professor, coordinator of Microbiology and Oncology
Biosketch
Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl is emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne, and was affiliated member of the Swiss Institute of Cancer Research (ISREC). He used to work on mucosal immunity and vaccinology. He was a co-founder of EuroVacc, a Foundation active in the development of HIV vaccines, He is a member of EMBO. He was the co- founder of OraVax, Inc, now part of Sanofi Pasteur. He is co-leader of OCTAVE, the Online Collaborative Training of AIDS Vaccine Evaluation.
Contact:
e-mail: Jean-Pierre.Kraehenbuhl@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 5856
Address: HSeT Foundation
c/o Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL)
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
Walter Reith
President, PhD, Emeritus Professor University of Geneva President of the Board
Biosketch
The laboratory of Walter Reith has a long-standing interest in molecular and cellular immunology. Major themes of past research have included the genetic control and biological functions of Major Histocompatibility Complex class II (MHCII) mediated antigen presentation in humans and mice in the context of health and disease.
Current topics focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate gene expression in specialized antigen presenting cells (APCs) – including B cells, various dendritic cell (DC) subsets and thymic epithelial cells – and the functions of these APCs in adaptive immune responses, the physiological processes that mediate the establishment and maintenance of immunological self-tolerance, and the pathological mechanisms that underpin the breakdown of immunological self-tolerance during the course of autoimmune diseases.
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
François Verrey
MD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Zürich