Scientific collaborators
Pascale Anderle

PhD, Senior Scientific Project Manager Health Science eTraining Foundation

Biosketch
Pascale ANDERLE, PhD, Statistics Online & Translational medicine & Entrepreneurship Master Coordinator
Pascale Anderle graduated in pharmacy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). After gaining a PhD degree in life science from the ETHZ she then worked for a year at Covance CLS, Geneva in the field of clinical trials. Later, she moved to the USA for a postdoc experience in the lab of Wolfgang Sadee at UCSF San Francisco and OSU, Ohio concentrating on absorption and genomics in the intestine. Afterwards, she joined the groups of Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl and Michel Aguet as postdoc fellow at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), partially in collaboration with the Nestle Research Center (NRC). The focus of her studies were on mucosal intestinal immunity and colon cancer and the use of genomics and in silico analysis. Being granted an EU project she moved to to Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI, Bellinzona) as junior group leader and then upon being invited to join a NCCR project to the University of Bern. During this period she was granted a CAS in applied statistics.
She is now a project coordinator for Statistics Online and the coordinator of the Master of Translational Medicine & Entrepreneurship of the SITEM/INSEL Foundation and the University of Bern. She participates in teaching activities at the University of Lausanne and ETHZ.
Contact
e-mail: Pascale.Anderle@HSeT.org
Phone:+41 21 692 58 69
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland
Rafaela da Silva

PhD, Senior Scientific Project Manager Health Science eTraining Foundation

Biosketch
Rafaela da Silva holds a Diploma in Pharmacy from the State University of Londrina (Brazil) and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Zürich. She published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious international journals, in the area of cardiovascular research, in the field of atherosclerosis, aneurysm, endothelial function and shear stress biomechanics.

 

Before she joined HSeT, she worked as Senior Scientific Project Manager and Head of the Master in Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship at sitem-insel School.
She worked at EPFL and Whiuri Cardiovascular Institute (Finland) as a scientist, Visiting Professor at the Department of Cardiology- Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, and as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). In January 2023, Rafaela joined HSeT as Senior Scientific Program Manager, in which she is actively involved in the Distance Learning Educational Programme in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (https://iagg-fge.org). Since October 2023, Rafaela also works as an e-learning Consultant for the distance learning Portuguese courses at the Word Intellectual Property Organization.
Contact
Tel.: +41 799344845
Email: Rafaela.dasilva@hset.org
Jean Gruenberg

PhD, Em. Prof. Biochemistry UNIGE. Coordinator HSeT/Faculty of Sciences Executive Committee

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: UNIGE Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biochemistry
Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl

MD PhD Em.Prof.UNIL HSeT founding member, Coordinator of Microbiology and Oncology Executive Committee

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
Jozsef Zoltan Kiss

MD. Em. Prof. UNIGE, Neurosciences, Scientific Advisory Board

Biosketch
Jozsef Zoltan KISS obtained his M.D degree at the Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary in 1979.  He was a research associate at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1979 to1981, a  Research associate at the Department of Anatomy, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA  from 1981 to 1982, a  Visiting associate in the  Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA from 1983 to1984, a Research associate at the  Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 1985 to 1986, a Visiting scientist, Rudolf Magnus Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1986.
In 1986, he joined the University of Geneva Medical School, first as a junior faculty member and in 2007 as a full professor, at the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience. He retired in 2018.
He was and still is interested in developmental mechanisms that are critical for neuronal migration and circuit formation in the cerebral cortex as well as the molecular control of neural progenitor migration with the aim to direct these cells to sites of injury to achieve structural repair.
Contact
e-mail: Jozsef.Kiss@unige.ch
Phone: +41 22 379 52 02
Address: UNIGE  Medical School
Bernard Rossier

MD Em.Prof.UNIL HSeT founding member, Scientific Advisory Board

Biosketch
Bernard Rossier is MD, emeritus professor, former director of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and former Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne. For more than thirty years, he led a research group working in the field of hypertension and he is the author of more than 200 publications in this field. He is the recipient of numerous international awards in the field of nephrology and hypertension. He is a member of EMBO, Academia Europaea, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He is an Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Dr. honoris causa from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He is co-founder of HSeT, member of the board and project coordinator in the field of pharmacology, toxicology and nephrology.
Contact
e-mail:Bernard.Rossier@Unil.ch
Phone: +41 21 692 58 60
Address: HSeT Foundation
c/o Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL)
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
Michelle Rossier

MD HSeT founding member, Coordinator Pharmaco/Toxicology Nephrology Board member

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Dr Michelle Rossier received an M.D. from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and completed a medical doctorate in the  Department of Physiology of the University of Geneva. After a postdoctoral research fellowship, she held an assistant research physiologist position at the Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco. She then returned to the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Lausanne, where she became a « maître assistant ». From 1977 to 2006 she was Director of the clinical laboratories of Hematology, Clinical Chemistry and Microbiology at the Hospital of Morges, Switzerland. In 2001 she held the same position with Viollier Inc., one of the largest private clinical laboratories in Switzerland. She joined the HSeT core team in February 2006 to become a project coordinator for several HSeT projects.
Contact
e-mail: Michelle.Rossier@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 58 60
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland
Aviva Sugar Chmiel

Aviva Sugar Chmiel, MD, Master in Learning and Teaching technologies at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - UNIGE.

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Aviva Sugar Chmiel, MD, Master in Learning and Teaching technologies at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences – UNIGE.
Competencies:
-Introduction, implementation and coordination of tools for teaching and learning
-Creation of eLearning capsules
-Use of video in teaching
-Hybrid education: Establishment of hybrid education at program level
-Management and in-depth use of Moodle
-Setting up and managing an ePortfolio (GPS, Mahara)
-Serious play in teaching
Contact
e-mail: Aviva.SugarChmiel@unige.ch
Phone: +22 379 53 54
Walter Reith

PhD, Em. Prof. Pathology & Immunology UNIGE, Coordinator HSeT / UNIGE Executive Committee

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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@unige.ch
Phone:+41 79 250 3539
Address:
University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel-Servet
CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
François Verrey

MD, Em. Prof. Department of Physiology UZH, Coordinator HSeT Nephrology/NCCRkidney Executive Committee

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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 SNF 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 vice-director of the Swiss Kidney Foundation.
Contact
e-mail: francois.verrey@uzh.ch
Address: Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich
Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich

Technical collaborators:

Jose Torralbo

Alain Meystre