Scientific collaborators

Pascale Anderle
PhD
Bio
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.
e-mail: Pascale.Anderle@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 58 69
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland

Aviva Sugar Chmiel
MD - Technical-pedagogical Advisor UNIGE
Bio
- 2011 : Master en Learning and Teaching (MaLTT) technologies à la FAPSE, UniGE
- 2006-2011: Edition of elearning modules
- 1991 : Diplôme de médecin, université de Zurich, 1993 MD, Université de Lausanne
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
Telephone: +22 379 53 54
Contact: e-mail: Aviva.SugarChmiel@unige.ch

Li Long
Manager of software in biomedical research.
Bio
She has worked on all major stages of software development process, from software design, development, quality control to life cycle management, using major hardware/software platforms, many programming languages, development tools, operating environments/resources.
In HSeT, she’s been working on migrating biomedical course contents to more modern Learning Management System (LMS) and Content Management System (CMS).

Sophie Wurth
Scientific collaborator, UDREM UNIGE
Coordinator MAS/CAS BioBanking
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Bio
MSc Bioengineering EPFL, Bachelor in Medical Sciences.
Long-term goal is to promote the leveraging of technologies and engineering-based approaches emerging from synergies between the academic and the clinical world to advance current understanding of the human body in health and disease and thereby improve the quality of life of the afflicted. Addressing those challenges through 1) fostering academic-clinical interactions and collaborations and 2) promoting an interdisciplinary, pedagogic, and clinically relevant education of medical and bioengineering students from early in their curriculum. Now working both at the University of Geneva Unit for Research and Development in Medical Education and at the Biomedical Sciences cursus at the faculty of Medicine allows me to contribute to narrowing this gap and enhancing communication between clinical and biomedical driven disciplines from the bottom up.
Contact
Telephone: +41 22 379 59 35
Contact email: Sophie.Wurth@unige.ch

Walter Reith
PhD, Em. Prof. Pathology & Immunology UNIGE, Coordinator HSeT/UNIGE
Bio
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: Faculty of medicine
University of Geneva
1 rue Michel-Servet
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland

François Verrey
MD, Em. Prof. Department of Physiology UZH, Coordinator HSeT Nephrology/NCCRkidney
Bio
Contact:
e-mail: francois.verrey@uzh.ch
Address: Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich

Jean Gruenberg
PhD, Em. Prof. Biochemistry UNIGE, Coordinator HSeT/Faculty of Sciences
Bio
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, CEO and coordinator of Microbiology and Oncology
Bio

Michelle Rossier
MD, coordinator Pharmacology & Toxicology, Nephrology
Bio
e-mail: Michelle.Rossier@HSeT.org
Phone: +41 21 692 58 60
Address: HSeT Foundation
Chemin des Boveresses 155
CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland

Bernard Rossier
MD, coordinator of Nephrology, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Bio
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
Advisors

Jozsef Zoltan Kiss
MD. Em. Prof. UNIGE, Neurosciences
Bio
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 Medial School

Victor Jongeneel
PhD, Em. Professor UNIL, SIB Foundation Board
Bio
Victor Jongeneel, mastered in biochemistry at the University of Lausanne, obtained a doctorate in microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. He developed a considerable interest in the application of computer tools to biological research, and became fully involved in computational biology by becoming one of the founders and the first director of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) in 1998, as well as a life member of its Foundation Board
The University of Lausanne appointed him associate professor at the Integrative Genomics Center in 2002 for his outstanding contributions to the research and development of computational biology on campus, as well as for his teaching. In 2003, he became the first director of the Vital-IT Center, a collaborative company between the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva and EPFL, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Oracle, led by the SIB and supporting bioinformatics projects in large scale. Named a “Full Member” of the LICR in 2006, he is fully involved in bioinformatics research on cancer genomics and develops numerous collaborations with local communities of genomics researchers in Lausanne, Geneva and international groups of the LICR.
Presently he is director of the High Performance Biological Computing of the University of Illinois . He is also an active member of the Pan African Bioinformatics Network for the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Abio-Net) .

Ivana Knezevic
MD PhD, WHO Geneva, Titular Professor UNIL
Bio
Dr Knezevic has 19 years of professional experience in standardization and regulation of biologicals. In 2000, Dr Knezevic joined WHO Biological Standardization Programme and since then her activities have been devoted to the standardization and evaluation of biologicals at the global level. Since 2006, she has been leading standardization of vaccines and some biological therapeutics. Dr Knezevic led development of WHO regulatory guidelines on various aspects of vaccine evaluation as well as the recommendations for production, control and evaluation of selected vaccines, published in WHO Technical Report Series. In the area of biotherapeutics, she coordinated development of the WHO Guidelines on evaluation of similar biotherapeutic products (SBPs) and has initiated a series of workshops to facilitate implementation of guiding principles into regulatory and manufacturers’ practice.
Dr Knezevic is also the author of several publications that made broad audience aware of WHO initiative in the development, establishment and implementation of standards for vaccines and some other biological products. Dr. Knezevic is Specialist in Medical Microbiology and Parasitology. She received her MD from the University of Novi Sad, her MSc in Medicine (Microbiology) and PhD in Medicine (Virology) from the University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. Presently she is Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the Lausanne University
Contact:
e-mail: knezevici@who.int
Phone: +41 22 791 3136
Address: WHO, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27

Alia Benkahla
Professor at the Pasteur Institute Tunis
Bio
Prof. Benkhala is the Head of the Bioinformatics Subunit at BIMS. Her research aims to understand the processes of regulation, interaction, and signaling mechanisms activated in response to diseases and more recently, on clinical informatics.

Amos Bairoch
PhD, Professor of Bioinformatics UNIGE
Bio
Amos Bairoch is a Swiss bioinformatician and Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Human Protein Sciences of the University of Geneva where he leads the CALIPHO group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) combining bioinformatics, curation, and experimental efforts to functionally characterize human proteins. Contact: e-mail: Amos.bairoch@unige.ch Phone: +41 22 379 58 60 Address: UNIGE Medial Schoolamos.bairoch@sib.swiss
Freelance collaborators

Claude MERIC
PhD, Administrator / Coordinator of Infravec
Bio

Alain Meystre
Animation Designer
Bio

Cedric Mourgeon
Computer scientist