Thesis Defenses

Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.

Thesis Defenses by PhD Candidates

Karin Farah Schmid

ARTOG Center, Organs-on-Chip Technologies, Medical Faculty

«Towards a vascularized metastatic tumor-on-chip»

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Olivier Thierry Guenat

Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences»

Date of Thesis defense: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The thesis defenses are organised by the student and the thesis committee, as some Institutes throughout the University of Bern and the Inselspital have regulations in place for the capacity of the rooms.

Fanny Kristina Sandberg

Inselspital, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty

«Advancing Liquid Biopsies in Transplantation Beyond Fractional Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Plasma»

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ursula Amstutz

Title: «MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy)»

Date of Thesis defense: : Friday, October 17, 2025

The thesis defenses are organised by the student and the thesis committee, as some Institutes throughout the University of Bern and the Inselspital have regulations in place for the capacity of the rooms.