Graduations in 2025

GCB Graduates 2025 in alphabetical order.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

 

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Nicolò Alerni, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 15)
University of Bern, Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Katja Elisabeth Odening)
«Electro-mechanical and mechano-electrical interactions in Long QT, Short QT and Wild-Type rabbits»

Isabel Arenas Hoyos, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (January 13)
DBMR, University of Bern, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Robert Rieben, PD Dr.med. Radu Olariu, Dr. Nicoletta Sorvillo)
«Vascularized composite allotransplantation: A model for understanding graft rejection»

Neda Salimi Afjani, PhD in Immunology (June 18) 

DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Yvonne Döring & Prof. Dr. Robert Rieben)

«Investigating Xenograft Compatibility: Testing Genetically Modified Porcine Endothelial Cells in a  Novel In-Vitro Flow Model and Evaluating  Unconventional Anti Rejection Drugs.»

 

Raphael Raschid Andonie PhD in Biomedical Engineering (July 03) 

ARTORG, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Stefan Andreas Weder) 

«Cochlear Implant Telemetry for Objective Cochlear Health Monitoring»

 

 

B

Patricia Katiana Beer, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (February 6)
Clinic for Small Animal Surgery/ Department for Small Animals, Vetsuisse Faculty Zurich (PD Dr. med. vet. Mirja Christine Nolff)
«Targeted near-infrared Fluorescence imaging for intraoperative soft tissue sarcoma visualization: cross-species target analysis and in vivo imaging in dogs»

Fabienne Esther Birrer, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 20)
University of Bern, DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Deborah M. Keogh-Stroka)
«Characterization of the Mc4rKO mouse model to investigate the immune landscape in MASH livers»

Micaela Borsa, PhD in Neuroscience,( March 18), 

Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie (ZEN), Department of Neurology, Inselspial University Hospital Bern, Faculty of Medicine, (Prof. Dr. Antoine Roger Adamantidis )

,«Synergy of Cortical Dynamics and Synaptic Tuning in REM Sleep for Emotional Memory Encoding»

 

Julia Isabella Bayer, PhD in Immunology (March 27 )

Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Joel Zindel, Prof. Dr. Deborah Stroka)

«Role of Macrophage-Mesothelial Cell Crosstalk in Pathological Scarring within the Peritoneal Cavity»

 

Aurelia Lucilla Bucciarelli, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 19) 

ARTOG, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Dominik Obrist ) 

«Dynamics of Red Blood Cell Partitioning and Flow in In Vitro Microvascular Networks: The Roles of Lingering Red Blood Cells and Pericyte Activation»

 

Sven Patric Baumann, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (June 16)

DBMR, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Matthias Hediger)

«Structural elements of the ZIP8 (SLC39A8) metal ion/bicarbonate cotransporter and its role in health and disease»

 

 

C

Francesco Stefano Carzaniga, PhD in Neuroscience (February 14)
Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy-Center, NeuroTec, University Bern, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Kaspar Anton Schindler)
«Vector-Symbolic Architectures and Generative AI for Multivariate Time-Series Analysis: Advancing Seizure Detection and Understanding of Human Electroencephalography»

Filippo Manlio Cattalani Tognola, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (February 28)
Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Bern (Prof. Dr. Horst Posthaus)
«Unveiling the molecular and structural mechanism of action of Clostridium perfringens Necrotizing enteritis toxin F (NetF)»

Wanli Cheng, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (March 27) 

DBMR, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio & Dr. Sofia Karkampouna ) 

«Novel Therapeutic Strategies Exploiting Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer»

 

Katherine Briana Crump, PhD in Biomedica Engineering (May 28)

DBMR, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Benjamin Gantenbein ) 

«Mechanobiology and pro-inflammatory cytokines in the intervertebral disc: An <in vitro, ex vivo, and in silico investigation»

 

 

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E

Bryce Ridley Evans, PhD in Immunology (January 22)
University of Bern, DBMR, Angiology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Yvonne Döring)
«ChemR23 prevents phenotypic switching of vascular  smooth muscle cells  into macrophage like foam cells in atherosclerosis»

 

F

Timothée Louis Fettrelet, PhD in Immunology (February 21)
Institute of Pharmacology, Medical faculty, Univesity of Bern (Prof. Dr. Hans-Uwe Simon)
«Molecular regulation of eosinophil differentiation and functions: the emerging role of long non-coding RNAs»»

Matteo Frigelli, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (February 03)
Universität Bern, ARTOG, Medical Faculty (Dr. Sabine Kling and Prof. Dr. Philippe Büchler)
«Localized Corneal Stiffening for Refractive Correction: Experiments and Computational Analysis»

Lorenzo Ferrari, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 24),

 ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Dominik Obrist ) 

«Experimental Flow Field Assessment of Surgical Valve Prostheses with Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry: Impact of Model, Size and Cardiac Output»

 

Ana Leni Frei, PhD in Biomedical Engineering,(March 25)  

Pathology, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Inti Zlobec) 

«Geometric deep learning and graph-based analysis to study the effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer»

 

 

G

Huixiang Ge, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( May 28 ) 

DBMR, Medical Faculty ( PD Dr.phil.nat. Thomas Marti & PD. Dr. med. Patrick Dorn ) 

«Targeting Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Lung Cancer: LDHB and GLDC Regulate the Role of Glutathione in Metastasis and Ferroptosis»

 

 

H

Kai Pascal Alexander Hänggeli, PhD in Cell Biology (January 22)
Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern (Prof. Dr. Andrew Hemphill)
«Characterisation and validation of putative targets for intervention in Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum infection»

Elio Luca Herzog, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( March 28) 

University Clinic for Ophtalmology, Faculty of Medicine ( Dr.phil. Denise Corinne Zysset, Prof. Dr. Martin Zinkernagel ) 

«Linking the Ocular Surface Microbiome to the Local Mucosal Immune System in Mice»

 

Giselle Hevia Hernandez, PhD in Immunology (June 19)

Institute of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Stephan von Gunten ) 

«Exploring immunoglobulin-mediated mechanisms in  immune regulation»

 

Lucien Hinderling, PhD in Cell Biology (June 24) 

Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science (Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)

«Using real-time feedback control microscopy to study cellular processes across scales»

 

 

I

Lazar Ivanovic, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (April 29 ) 

IBMM, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Wanda Kukulski)

«Molecular and architectural organization of tricalbin-mediated ER-PM contact sites in budding yeast»

 

 

J

Romano Josi, PhD in Immunology ( March 24) 

RI- Immunologie - Inselspital, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Mona Omar Mahmoud Mohsen, Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann) 

«Virus-Like Particles as Platforms for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapeutic Strategies»

 

 

K

MohammadAmin Khosrozadeh, PhD in Neuroscience (January 30)
Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Benoît Zuber)
«Morphological Principle of Synaptic Transmission Regulation Using Cryo-Electron Tomography and Data-Driven Models»

Gabija Krutkyte, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (June 16)

University Clinic for Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism (UDEM), Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Lia Bally)

«Optimising Perioperative Care Using Metabolic Phenotyping»

 

 

L

Yuebing Li, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (January 22)
University Hospital for Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Volker Enzmann, PD Dr. med. Souska Sophie Zandi)
«Rho-kinase involvement in ocluar fibrosis»

Lea Lingg, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (February 14)
Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern (Prof. Dr. Sven Rottenberg)
«Refining Precision Oncology: Understanding Mechanisms of Therapy Response in BRCA1;p53- Deficient Mammary Tumors»

Jiaqi Li, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (April 04) 

DBMR, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Benjamin Misselwitz, Prof. Dr. Bahtyiar Yilmaz ) 

«Oxidative stress resilience of gut microbial strains under healthy and inflammatory conditions»

 

Leonor Serrano Lopes, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (June 16) 

ARTORG, MedIcal Faculty (Prof. Dr. Kuangyu Shi)

«Optimising Perioperative Care Using Metabolic Phenotyping»

 

 

M

Rina Mehmeti, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) ( June 20) 

Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Mario Paul Tschan, Prof. Dr. Inti Zlobec) 

«From Chromatin Modification to Cellular Motility: Epigenetically Repressed CDX2 Promotes Colorectal Cancer Cell Migration and Tumor Budding»

 

Julia Moser, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( June 27) 

Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern ( Prof. Dr. Getraud Irene Schüpbach)

«Veal Calf Barn Housing Climate: Ammonia and Forced Ventilation Measurements»

 

 

Marine Massy, PhD in Biomedical Science (July 03) 

Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty (PD Dr.med. Robert Hoepner)

«Investigating the Sex Effect on Efficacy and Withdrawal of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Receptor Modulators»

 

 

N

Saranda Nimani, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (January 29)
Department of Physiology - UNIBE, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Katja Elisabeth Odening)
«QT syndromes: arrhythmogenic mechanisms and novel therapeutic approaches»

 

O

Andreas Werner Öhm, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) ( July 04) 

Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty of Zürich, Vetsuisse Zurich ( PD Dr. Manuela Schnyder and Prof. Dr. Salomé Leibundgut-Landmann)

«Host-parasite interactions in canid angiostrongylosis: from antigenic characterisation to cellular models»

 

 

 

P

Mariafrancesca Petrucci, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (January 09)
DBMR, Experimental Surgery facility (ESF), University of Bern, Medical Faculty ( Dr. Daniela Casoni)
«Unravelling pain in minipigs undergoing experimentally induced myocardial infarction.Can it also mirror ischaemic pain in humans?»

Lukas Martin Probst, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (January 21)
Universität Bern,IFIK, Medicine Faculty (PD Dr. Ronald Dijkman)
«Characterization of the Interaction of Influenza D Virus with the Host Innate Immune System»

Sigma Pradhan, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (March 28) 

Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science

«Diet-induced intergenerational control of growth and proteome composition in C. elegans»

 

Dixy Parakkattel, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (June 02 ) 

Inselspital, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Heverhagen ) 

«From blood to brain: A novel route for gadolinium-based contrast agent entry into the brain»

 

Margherita Polidori, PhD in Neuroscience ( June 03 ) 

Wiederkäuerklinik, Vetsuisse Fakultät Universität Bern, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern ( Prof. Dr. Anna Oevermann)

«Host pathogen interactions in Listeria monocytogenes-infected microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages»

 

Roberto Rolando Pisano, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (June 27) 

FIWI, Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern ( Prof. Dr. Heike Schmidt-Posthaus ) 

«Eco - epidemiology of crayfish plague in Switzerland»

 

 

 

 

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R

Dominik Alexander Rothen, PhD in Immunology (January 24)
RI-Immunologie Inselspital, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann)
«Multi‐Target Vaccine Against Flaviviruses Based on Virus‐Like Particles»

Adrian Cyrill Ruckli, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 24)
Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship sitem, Medical Faculty (PD Dr. Kate Gerber)
«Uncertainty-based error localisation and correction for deep learning anatomy segmentation for treatment planning in orthopaedics»

Alessia Rosina, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (July 04) 

DCBP, Science Faculty (Prof. Dr. Norbert Polacek)

«Fine-tuning the ribosome: the role of rRNA expansion segments and rancRNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae translation regulation»

 

 

S

Osman Berk Satir, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 07)
University of Bern, ARTORG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Philippe Büchler)
«Deep learning for automatic characterization of shoulder bone and muscle morphology and degeneration from CT images»

Alexandria Marie Schauer, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (February 18)
Institute of Bee Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern (Prof. Dr. Peter Neumann)
«Arthropod-virus interactions from tissue to landscape level»

Mathieu Simon, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 20)
Universität Bern, ARTOG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Philippe Zysset)
«Multi-Scale Bone Morphology-Mechanical Property Relations in Ageing and Disease»

Michael Single, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (February 05)
ARTORG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Antoine Roger Adamantidis)
«Digital Biomarkers to Characterize Motor Functions of People with a Neurodegenerative Disease»

Ruth Theresia Steinberg, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (March 18) 

Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. med.,Dr. phil. Philipp Latzin)

«Impact of the airway microbiome on clinical outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis and healthy controls and the possible influence of environmental factors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic»

 

Christine Schneider, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (April 02) 

Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Jochen Karl Rössler ) 

«Prospective multicentre cohort study of early pulmonary dysfunction in childhood cancer patients»

 

Guy-Alain Georges Schnidrig, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( May 14) 

Vetsuisse Unibe, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern ( Prof. Dr. Gertraud Irene Schüpbach ) 

«Anomaly detection in the veterinary antibiotic prescription surveillance system (IS ABV)»

 

Xiaoqing Song, DDS PhD (Doctor of Dentistry and Philosophy) (June 02) 

School of Dental Medicine, Department of Periodontology, Laboratory of Oral Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicin ( PD Dr. Mariya Bozhidarova Asparuhova)

«Human palatal connective tissue grafts: molecular profiles and cell-cell interactions»

 

Tiana Carina Schwab, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (June 10 ) 

Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine (ISPM), Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Lukas Fenner, Prof. Dr. Matthias Egger ) 

«Sequencing Approaches for Improved Tuberculosis and Infectious Disease Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa»

 

Saurav Subedi, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (July 11)

Urology Group, Cancer Therapy Resistance, Faculty of Medicine (Prof.Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio, Federico de la Manna, PhD)

«Metabolic Drivers of Prostate Cancer Progression»

 

 

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Federico Turco, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 7)
Institute of Diagnostic and Inverventional Neuroradiology, MedIcal Faculty (Prof. Dr. Johannes Slotboom)
«Development of High-Performance MRSI Analysis and Processing Tool Based on Artificial Intelligence»

Vahoura Tahsini, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (May 26) 

ARTOG, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Philippe Büchler, Dr. Sabine Kling )

«Material characterization of lens, cornea and sclera in healthy eyes with age»

 

Péter Demeter Túrós, PhD in Computational Biology  (May 28) 

Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern ( Prof. Dr. Sven Rottenberg, Prof. Dr. Volker Earl Thiel )

«Decoding Spatially Resolved Biology: Machine Learning Methods to Uncover Tissue Complexity»

 

 

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V

Anne-Cathrine Sarah Vogt, PhD in Immunology ( March 31) 

RI- Immunologie - Inselspital, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann) 

«Immunotherapy Targeting Amyloid-Related Diseases»

 

Virginia Roland Victor, PhD in Cell Biology (June 13 ) 

DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Marco OsterwalderProf. Dr. Marco Osterwalder)

«Functional architecture of cardiac TF regulatory landscapes in control of mammalian heart development»

 

Antoine Dominique Vautrin, PhD in Bomedical Engineering (June 27 ) 

AO Research Institute Davos, Medical Faculty ( PD Dr. Peter Varga)

«Numerical modeling of dental implant biomechanics towards design optimization and planning»

 

 

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Christina Wapp, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 18)
ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Philippe Zysset)
«The Development of a Personalised Fragility Hip Fracture Risk Calculator»

Fei Hugo Wu, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 28) 

ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Raphael Sznitman) 

«Alleviating the Issue of Annotation Scarcity in Semantic Segmentation using Active Learning»

 

Tobias Adrian Weber, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (June 19) 

ARTORG, MedIcal Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Olivier Thierry Guenat )

«Development of a Breathing Lung-on-Chip: An Advanced In Vitro Model for Drug Testing»

 

 

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Jun Xu, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (February 24)
Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Mario Paul Tschan)
«Function and post-translational regulation of the oncogenic splice variant DMTF1β»

 

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Yudong Yan, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (January 24)
Zentrum fur Experimentelle Neurologie (ZEN), Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Antoine Roger Adamantidis)
«Stability of Hypothalamic Neural Population Activity Across Sleep-Wake States»

 

Z

Matteo Zoia, PhD in Cell Biology (May 05) 

DBMR, Faculty of Medicine ( Prof. Dr. Marco Osterwalder ) 

«Deciphering the cis-regulatory architecture of the Shox2 transcriptional regulator essential for embryonic development»

 

Valentina Zollet, PhD in Biomedical Science (June 20) 

DBMR, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Robert Rieben)

«Extracellular traps and hypercitrullination in ischemia reperfusion injury, cancer and xenotransplantation»