2025 is a special year for the Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) as we celebrate its 20th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we organized a special program for this year’s annual research symposium on June 26, 2025. The GCB officially opened on September 1, 2005. Since then, over 1,400 doctoral students from three faculties (Medicine, Science, and Veterinary Medicine) working in various fields of cellular and biomedical sciences have obtained an interfaculty doctorate. In the first GCB annual report published in 2007, then GCB president Prof. Daniel Schümperli stated “the expected final size of the GCB will be about 400 students.” By the end of 2024, the GCB boasted 549 registered students, clearly exceeding the 2007 predictions.The graduate school continues to grow, adding an average of 150 new students each year while approximately 120 students graduate annually. While 17 mentors supported the initial 45 students in 2005, this number has grown to 122.
The GCB provides comprehensive, internationally competitive training in theory and practice of experimental research as well as in-depth specialist knowledge of the individually selected research area. It directs students towards independent scientific work and enables them to assume scientific responsibility
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Mentoring
Good support is pivotal to ensuring the rapid progress of a doctorate and integration in the scientific community. Advice and support must not only be provided by the doctoral thesis supervisors. Good support also involves a network provided within the framework of a graduate school by experienced colleagues and through mentoring.
From 01.01.2024
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