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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Asli Adak, PhD in Cell Biology ( December 10) 
Institute  of Anatomy, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Nadia Isabel Mercader Huber)
«Investigating the Influence of Zebrafish Heart Regeneration-Associated Secreted Factors on Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes and Fibroblasts»

 

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.»

 

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»

Pedro Pereira Amado, PhD in Biomedical Engineering ( October 29)
ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Researc, Medical Faculty ( PD Dr. Francesco Clavica)
«Investigating the interplay between urine flow, crystal deposition and bacteria to improve the performance of ureteral stents»

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»

 

Bettina Katharina Amberg, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( December 19)
Institute of Animal Pathology, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP), Vetsuisse Bern ( Prof. Dr. Sven Rottenberg)
«Leveraging Spatial Transcriptomics for Preclinical Drug Development»

 

Nadine Anslinger, PhD in Immunology (November 26)
BITg, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Daniel Legler)
«Exploring Model Systems to Investigate Dendritic Cell  Immune Functions»

 

Ainhoa Asensio Aldave, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( November 27)
DBMR, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Deborah M. Keogh-Stroka)
«Oxidative Stress in Metabolic Liver Disease and PCSK9-Deficient Livers: A Focus on DNA Damage and Hepatocyte Proliferation»

 

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»

Ruben Mordehaï Assaraf, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( October 28) 
DCBP, Faculty of Medicine (PD Dr. Carlos Ros Bascunana)
«Deciphering Capsid Shielding by Host Protease Inhibitors in Parvovirus B19 Infection»

 

Bianca Manuela Atchou, PhD in Cell Biology (August 11)
Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science (Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)
«Mitochondrial Genome Replication and Transcription in Trypanosoma brucei»

 

Kodzo Atchou, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (November 28)
Institute of Cell Biology (IZB), Phil Nat. Faculty (Prof. Dr. Volker Heussler)
«Host Cell Vesicle Trafficking and Parasite Microtubule Dynamics During the Plasmodium Liver Stage»

 

 

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Elias Baumann, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (July 17)
University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Inti Zlobec
«Cellular Cartography: Nuclei Segmentation for Biomarker Discovery in Colorectal Cancer»

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»

 

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»

 

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»

 

Lena Carolina Bruhin, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (November 24) 
ARTORG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Tobias Nef)
«Solutions for Healthcare Challenges in Aging Populations: Leveraging Sensor-Based Monitoring to Extract Activity Patterns»

 

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»

 

Milica Bulatović, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (September 05) 
ARTORG, Medical Faculty (Dr. Stefan Weber)
«Thermal Ablation Tailored to Distinct Tumor Shapes»

 

 

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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)»

Camille Danielle Catherine Clamagirand, PhD in Immunology (November 04) 
BITg, Faculty of Science (  Dr. Jérémie Rossy) 
«Dentritic cells shape the immune synapse architecture to direct T cell responses»

 

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»

 

Shuimu Chen, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy ( July 29 )
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Benjamin Gantenbein)
«A Mechanistic Study of Different Intervertebral Disc Phenotypes and Their Effects on Spinal Fusion»

 

Alexia Aurélia Danielle Maryvonne Clavier, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( December 01)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Sarah Henning Longnus)
«Cardiac graft quality with donation after circulatory death: Proteomics and sex difference investigations»

 

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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Susan De Groof, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (August 18)
Inselspital, Faculty of Medicine  (PD Dr.phil. Loretta Lina Müller)
«Bacterial Lysate-Induced Modulation of Nasal Epithelial and NK Cell Responses to Rhinovirus»

 

Nadia Djabeur, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (October 01)
IBMM, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Dimitrios José Fotiadis)
«Structural insights into selected bacterial and viral proteins»

 

 

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Yasmine Eddoubaji, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( December 18)
Institute for Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Andrea Endimiani)
«Using Zophobas morio larvae to design a new <i>in vivo</i> model of intestinal colonization due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales»

 

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»

 

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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»»

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»

 

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»

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»

 

Daniel Fuchs, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (October 31)
Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology,Vetsuisse Faculty in Zurich (Prof.Dr. Enni Markkanen)
«Cross-species characterization of malignant soft-tissue sarcomas to identify targets for near-infrared fluorescence-guided surgery and pharmacotherapy»

 

Patricia Sonja Fuchs, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (September 01)
Agroscope. Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Rupert Max Bruckmaier)
«Investigations of a virtual fencing system  focusing on technical and chronobiological aspects  to ensure animal welfare of cattle»

 

 

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Jasmin Galli, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy (November 27)
Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, Zurich (PD Dr. Karl Rüdiger Klisch & Prof. D. Mariusz Kowalewski)
«Placental extracellular vesicles: Comparative aspects in different placentation types»

 

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»

 

Oliver Gerken, PhD in Cell Biology (October 10)
BITg, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Daniel Legler)
«Atypical Chemokine Receptors in Scavenging Homing Chemokines and Beyond»

 

Vincent Gloe, PhD in Immunology (September 10)
BITg, Medical Faculty (Dr. Jérémie Rossy)
«Role of co-stimulatory molecules expressed by dendritic cells in formation of immunological synapse»

 

Arno Joeffroy Granier, PhD in Neuroscience (November 25)
Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Walter Senn)
«Understanding computation in canonical circuits of cortical cell types»

 

Benjamin Andreas Grädel, PhD in Cell Biology ( November 05)
Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science (( Prof. Dr. Olivier Pertz)
«Quantifying Spatiotemporal Signalling Dynamics Across Scales» 

 

Silja Anna Griss, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (August 12)
Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse (Prof. Dr. Gertraud Irene Schüpbach)
«Paratuberculosis in Swiss Dairy Cattle: Disease Impact, Economic Consequences and Potential Control Strategies»

 

Mauro Bruno Gwerder, PhD in Computational Biology (July 29) 
Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine. (Prof. Dr. Inti Zlobec)
«Unsupervised Assessment of Tumor Buds and their Micro-Environment using Multiplexed Immunofluorescence and Image Analysis Approaches in Colorectal Cancer»

 

 

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Paul Haider, PhD in Neuroscience (November 13)
Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty (Dr. Mihai Alexandru Petrovici,)
«Deep, local learning in dynamical networks outside of equilibrium»

 

 

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»

 

Alexander Michael Hofer, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (August 29)
DCBP, Faculty of Science ( Prof. Dr. Oliver Mühlemann )
«Studying Progranulin’s Role in Disease –  From Neurodegeneration to Cancer»

 

Jiaxi Hu, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy (August 19) 
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (PD Dr. Kuangyu Shi)
«A Systems-Medicine Investigation for the Optimization of the PSMA-Directed Radiopharmaceutical Therapy»

 

 

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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»

 

 

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Damian Jandrasits, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( October 29 )
Institute of virology and immunology and Laboratoy Spiez, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Volker Earl Thiel)
«Antivirals, Host Factors and Vaccines: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Monkeypox virus - two emerging viral threats»

 

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»

 

Clirim Jetishi, PhD in Cell Biology (September 12)
Institute of Cell biology, Science Faculty (Prof. Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter)
«From the Basal Bodies to the Mitochondrial Genome: The Tubular Segregation Machinery in Trypanosoma brucei»

 

 

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Jagannath Kamath, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (September 19)
ARTOG, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Mauricio Reyes)
«Fast and Reliable AI-based Dosimetric Contour Quality Assurance for Radiotherapy»

 

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»

Oleksiy-Zakhar Khoma, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (August 22)
Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine (PD Dr. Ruslan Hlushchuk and Dr. David Haberthür)
«Micro(angio)CT in preclinical peri-implant research»

 

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»

 

Nicholas Fabian Küng, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (August 28) 
University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Ursula Amstutz)
«From Donor-Derived to Tissue-of-Origin: A Multifaceted Exploration of Cell-Free DNA in Transplantation»

 

 

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Reto Mario Lang, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (November 11)
Institute of Virology and Immunology, Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern (Prof. Dr. Volker Earl Thiel
«Investigating the role of stress granules during virus infections»

 

Jana Leuenberger, PhD in Neurosciences (September 30)
Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Benoît Zuber)
«Integrative Analysis of Synaptic Structure and Function in PC12, SH-SY5Y, and iPSC-Derived Motor Neurons: A Multimodal Evaluation of Model Characteristics»

 

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»

 

Xiaodong Li, PhD in Cell Biology ( October 30) 
Institute of Cell biology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Mariusz Nowacki)
«DNA N6-methyladenine function in Paramecium tetraurelia»

 

Shuang Li, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) ( October 28)
DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio)
«Molecular investigation of prostate cancer residual disease in a model of bone microenvironment»

 

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»

 

Kirill Lotonin, PhD in Immunology (September 15) 
Institute of Virology and Immunology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Artur Summerfield)
«Adaptive immune responses against African swine fever»

 

 

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Magreth Erick Macha, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (August 21) 
Kantonsspital St. Gallen (PD Dr. Baharak Babouee Flury)
«Distribution and Resistance Mechanisms of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in patients with symptoms of Urinary Tract Infections and concurrent Gut Colonization by Resistant Enterobacterales in rural Tanzania»

 

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»

 

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»

 

 

 

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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»

 

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Quentin-Florian Pierre Oliveres, PhD in Cell Biology (December 17)
Institute of Plant Sciences, Phil. Nat. Faculty (Prof. Dr. Doris Rentsch )
«Post-translational modifications for amino acid transporters in Trypanosoma brucei»

 

Luis Fernando Quiñones Olvera, PhD in Neuroscience ( December 18)
IBMM, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Jürg Gertsch)
«Dissecting ACSL4 and MAGL Isoforms: Structural and Functional Insights into Membrane Lipid Remodeling and Endocannabinoid Signaling»

 

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»

 

 

 

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Irida Papapostolou, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( December 17 )
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Norbert Polacek)
«Investigation of nAChR and TRPM4 in cancer hallmark functions in 2D and 3D cancer models»

 

Alessandro Pardini, PhD in Immunology (September 19)
Rheumatologie und Immunologie, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann, Prof. Dr. Monique Vogel)
«Preclinical Development of Virus-Like Particle-Based Influenza Vaccines»

 

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»

 

Valentina Pecoraro, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( December 17)
DCBP, Phil. Nat. Faculty (Prof. Dr. Norbert Polacek)
«Characterization of hY3 as a ribosome-associated non-coding RNA and its functional role in translation regulation and the integrated stress response»

 

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?»

Laura Peters, PhD in Biochemistry ans Molecular Biology ( October 3)
BITg, Medical Faculty (Dr. Jérémie Rossy)
«Mechanobioogy of the immunological Synapse betweeen T Cells and Dendritic Cells»

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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»

 

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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Siavash Rahimi, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) ( December 09)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Eliane Jasmine Müller)
«The Role of Cell Adhesion in Tissue Self-organization and Regeneration: a Systems Biology Approach to Pemphigus vulgaris»

 

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»

 

Chiara Rodella, PhD in Computational Biology (August 20)
IBMM, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemmin)
«Large Language Model Methods for Protein Engineering and Antibody Discovery»

 

 

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Yasaman Safarkhanlo, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (August 25)
Department of Cardiology Inselspital, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Christoph Gräni, Prof. Dr. Jessica Bastaansen)
«Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Function, Structure, and Hemodynamics in Patients with Mitral Valve Regurgitation using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging»

 

Fanny Kristina Sandberg, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (October 17)
Inselspital, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Ursula Amstutz)
«Advancing Liquid Biopsies in Transplantation Beyond Fractional Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Plasma»

 

Darien Toledo Santamaria, PhD in Immunology (September 18)
Institute of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Stephan von Gunten)
«Unravelling the role of sialic acids and their implications in melanoma progression: from clinical evidence to exosomes»

 

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»

Karin Farah Schmid, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (October 22)
ARTOG Center, Organs-on-Chip Technologies, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Olivier Thierry Guenat)
«Towards a vascularized metastatic tumor-on-chip»

 

Leonhard Maximilian Schink, PhD in Immunology (November 24)
Institute of Biotechnology Thurgau BITg, Phil. Nat. Faculty (Prof. Dr. Daniel Legler)
«Investigating the Impact of CCR7 C-terminal Truncation Mutations on Receptor Signaling Dynamics and Immune Cell Migration»

 

Akanksha Arunkumar Shanbhag, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( August 26)
DCR-VPN, Vetsuisse Faculty, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern (Prof. Dr. Philippe Plattet)
«Potent cross-neutralising single-domain antibodies to fight morbilliviral infections»

 

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»

 

Philip Stettler, PhD in Biochemistry (August 25)
DCBP, Faculty of Science (Prof. Dr. André Schneider)
«Functional Architecture of the Tripartite Attachment Complex of Trypanosoma brucei»

 

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»

 

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)»

 

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»

 

Paulo Eduardo do Vale Sampaio e Souza, PhD in Biomedical Engineering
ARTOG, Faculty of Medicine
«Mueller matrix polarimetry for fresh pancreatic tissue characterization» (Prof. Dr. Raphael Sznitman)

 

 

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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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Vanessa Vallesi, PhD in Neuroscience (September 01)
Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum, Radiologie, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Johannes Slotboom)
«Multimodal MRI of motor impairment and inhibition: Functional connectivity and neurometabolic profiles in spinal cord injury and functional paralysis»

 

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»

Anaïs Elodie Yerly, PhD in Immunology (August 28)
Universitätsklinik für Angiologie, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Yvonne Döring)
«Loss of B cell-ACKR3 reduces atherosclerosis by attenuation of plasma cells and pro-inflammatory antibodies»

 

 

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Jingyi Zhang, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) ( December 11)
DBMR, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Ren Wang Peng)
«Ferroptosis Evasion via Cancer–Immune Cell Crosstalk as a Barrier to KRAS Inhibitor Therapies»

 

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»