Graduations in 2026

GCB Graduates 2026 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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Maryam Abdipourbozorgbaghi, Dr.med. Simon Häfliger & PD Dr. Ramon Radpour (February 10)
DBMR and University hospital department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine (Dr.med. Simon Häfliger & PD Dr. Ramon Radpour)
«Epigenetic-based biomarker investigation in lung cancer»

Berk Can Açıkgöz, PhD Biomedical Engineering (February 03)
Universität Bern, Abteilung Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Jessica Bastiaansen)
«Development of a Robust Pipeline with Phase-cycled Balanced Steady-State Free-Precession for Proton Density Fat Fraction Quantification»

Alisa Ambrodji, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (February 13)
University Institute of Clinical Chemistry (UKC), Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Carlo Rodolfo Largiadèr)
«Integrating cis- and trans-regulatory variation to predict fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity»

Stefanie Arunasalam, PhD in Cell Biology (January 29)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Sara Christina Meyer)
«Characterization of JAK2 Inhibition Failure Mechanisms and Approaches to Overcome Resistance to Therapy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms»

Simona Avanthay, PhD in Cell Biology (March 02)
Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty (PD Dr. Ilaria Marinoni)
«The Role of Epigenetics in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Progression»

 

B

Katharina Bacher, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 30)
IFIK, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Markus Hilty)
«Influence of the FUT2 Secretor status in correlation with Human Milk Oligosaccharides on the host airway microbiota and colonization duration of Streptococcus pneumoniae.»

Miriam Barbieri, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (February 11)
Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Katja Elisabeth Odening)
«SGK1 inhibition as a novel therapteutic approach for Long QT Syndromes»

Amandine Sylviane Françoise Brenna, PhD in Immunology (January 7)
Theodor Kocher Institute, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Britta Engelhardt)
«Defining the exit routes of encephalitogenic Th17 cells from the choroid plexus into the central nervous system»

Guillaume Francois Frederic Beilleau, PhD in Cell Biology (June 08)
Institute of Virology and Immunology, Vetsuisse Faculty (Prof. Dr. Matthias Schweizer)
A Trojan horse at the gate: Pestiviral Erns as the molecular picklock that disarms interferon responses at the epithelial door»

 

Lea Sophie Berg, PhD in Cell Biology (February 20)
Institute of Plant Sciences Bern, Faculty of Science (Prof. Dr. Michael Thomas Raissig)
«Leaf and Order: Building the Plant-Atmosphere Interface»

Anamaria Buzoianu, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (May 29)
DCBP, Faculty of Science (Prof. Dr. Norbert Polacek)
«FimR2 sRNA as key antagonist of the carbon storage regulator system in Escherichia coli»

 

 

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Jérémy Damien Raymond Cherbuin, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (January 23)
Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology (IVB), Vetsuisse Faculty (Prof. Dr. Jörg Jores)
«Integrating Host Immunity, Genomics, and Synthetic Biology to Develop Therapeutic Veterinary Bacteriophages»

Sandro Christensen, PhD in Immunology (February 16)
DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Christine Ganal-Vonarburg, Prof. Dr. med. Andrew Macpherson)
«Perinatal exposure to microbial and dietary factors shapes small intestinal epithelial and γδ T cell development»

Sara Çaku, PhD in Cell Biology (May 19)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. med. Anne Angelillo-Scherrer & Dr. Raja Prince-Eladnani)
«Characterization of the Role of Gas6 at the Interface Between Coagulation and Inflammation as a Basis for a Novel Therapeutic Approach for Sepsis»

 

D

Ethan Lowell Thorpe Dack, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (March 17)
ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Stavroula Mougiakakou)
«Developing Robust and Generalizable AI for Diagnostic Support Across Medical Imaging Modalities»

 

E

Nada El Makhzen, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (April 22) 
Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Hugues Abriel)
«Long-Read Nanopore Sequencing for Rare Genetic Diseases and Hereditary Breast Cancer in Moroccan Patients»

Sara Ezzat, PhD in Cell Biology (May 21) 
Institute of Virology and Immunology, Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern (Prof. Dr. Matthias Schweizer)
«To B-(VDV) or not to B-(VDV). From innate immune evasion to disease control»

 

F

Faezeh Anesa Farhoosh, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (May 26)
Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern (Prof. Dr. Horst Posthaus)
«Structural and Functional Characterization of Clostridium perfringens β-Toxin: Mechanisms of Target Cell Membrane
Interaction and Structure-Guided Inhibition»

Jan Franzen, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (March 11) 
Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern ( Prof. Dr. Horst Posthaus)
«Identification and functional characterization of novel <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> hemolysin-like beta-pore-forming toxins»

 

G

Gabriela Christina Gerber, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (June 02) 
ARTOG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Philippe Zysset)
«Computational Modelling of Bone Across Multiple Time-Scales: From Immediate Rate-Dependent Behaviour to the Estimation of Long-Term Loading History»

Éléa Romy Gros, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (April 30) 
Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Erik Vassella, PD Dr. Theoni Maragkou)
«Polarimetric Visualization of Healthy Brain Fibre Tracts for Tumor Delineation during Neurosurgery»

Carlos Vinicius Gomes Ferreira, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 14)
University of Bern, DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Kuangyu Shi)
«Development of artificial intelligence for simplified dosimetry in radiopharmaceutical therapy»

Michelle Gygax, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (March 10)
Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty (Prof. Dr. Hanno Würbel)
«Ethological Evaluation of Minimal Requirements for the Housing of Mice as Laboratory Animals and Pets» 

 

H

Salome Häuselmann, PhD in Neuroscience (May 28)
Inselspital, Department of Neurology, Psychosomatic Medicine (Prof. Dr. med. Selma Aybek & Prof. Dr. Martin grosse Holtforth)
«Chronic Primary Pain: Neural Signatures, Biopsychological Correlates, and Prediction of Treatment Outcomes»

 

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J

Ali Jazaerijouneghani, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (January 23)
Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann)
«TRIM28-Mediated Regulation of BOK mRNA Stability»

Philippe JeanRichard-dit-Bressel, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (January 26)
Institute of Pharmatology, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann)
«Understanding the complex roles of the BCL-2 family member BOK on cellular Metabolism»

 

K

Tobias Emmanuel Kämpfer, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Bology ( March 02)
Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty (Prof. Dr. Britta Lundström Stadelmann)
«Investigation of the mechanism of action of benzimidazoles against the parasite Echinococcus multilocularis»

Nic Krummenacher, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (June 01) 
ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Tobias Nef, Prof. Dr. Tim Vanbellingen)
«Development and Evaluation of a Sensor-Based Gamified System for Unsupervised Dexterity Training in Neurological Disorders»

 

L

Symela Lazaridi, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (January 28)
IBMM, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Thomas Max Lemmin)
«Re-engineering Biosensors from PAS domains»

Laëtitia Isabelle Le Caous, PhD in Immunology (April 24) 
IFIK, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Siegfried Hektor Hapfelmeier) 
«Within-Host Evolution of an Immunogenic Salmonella Typhimurium Live Vaccine»

Yantang Lin, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) ( March 18) 
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (PD Dr.phil.nat. Thomas Marti)
«Targeting LDHB enhances cisplatin sensitivity and increases ferroptotic vulnerability in cancer cells»

 

M

Farah Mansour, PhD in Cell Biology (March 30) 
School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Medical Faculty Prof. Dr. Christos Katsaros)
«Development and Application of Human Lip Keratinocyte Models to Study IRF6 in Postnatal Epithelial Homeostasis»

Dominic Sebastian Mischler, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (April 22)
AO Research Institute Davos, Medical Faculty (PD Dr. Peter Varga)
«Understanding failure of plate osteosyntheses using validated finite element simulations»

Anna Matveeva, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (June 09)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Amit Vikram Pandey)
«Personalized recombinant protein and cell models of human P450 oxidoreductase deficiency»

Ali Mokhtari, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 14)
ARTORG, Medical Faculty ( Prof. Dr. Dominik Obrist)
«Three-dimensional Analysis of Hemodynamic Wall Parameters in the Carotid Bifurcation using Computer Augmented 4D Flow MRI»

Stefan Urs Moning, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (May 22) 
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Christoph von Ballmoos)
«Nature-derived ideas for synthetic ATP synthesis»

Diego Morone, PhD in Cell Biology (February 03)
IRB- Institute of Research in Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine (Dr. Maurizio Molinari)
«Characterization of selective autophagy programs in human T cell homeostasis»

Eliane Müller, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 08)
Inselspital, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Selma Aybek Rusca)
«Real-time functional MRI neurofeedback in functional neurological disorder: Insights from a proof-of-concept study»

 

N

Pavlos Natsios, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (March 09) 
Clinic for Small Animal Surgery, University of Zurich, Vetsuisse Faculty Zurich (Prof. Dr. Antonio Pozzi)
«Ex vivo and in vivo assessment of canine stifle rotational and sagittal instability»

Sofia Marie Jarrin Nuñez, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (May 26)
Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Christine Peinelt, Prof. Dr. Christiane Albrecht)
«Store-operated Ca2+ entry in the human placenta»

 

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P

Caroline Piccand, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (February 26)
Inselgruppe, DBMR, Kinderklinik, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Michele Bernasconi & Prof. Dr. Jochen Rössler)
«Rational Development and Preclinical Evaluation of CAR T Cell Therapies for Rhabdomyosarcoma»

Nils Marc Joel Plähn, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 29)
Universitätsspital Bern und Universität Bern, Abteilung für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Jessica Bastiaansen)
«Simultaneous and robust multi-parameter quantification in magnetic resonance imaging»

Simone Luigi Poncioni, PhD in Biomedical Engineering ( April 02) 
ARTORG, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Philippe Zysset)
«Improved Homogenised Finite Element Analysis for HR-pQCT-based Individual Fracture Risk Prediction»

 

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R

Vincent Lucien Paul Rapp, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 30)
DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Marco Osterwalder)
«Functional assessment of the cis-regulatory landscape of TBX5, a critical regulator of mammalian heart development and disease»

Patrick Roth, PhD in Biochemisty and Molecular Biology (February 23)
IBMM, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Dimtrios José Fotiadis)
«Structural Insights into Bacterial Glucose Transport and Transcriptional Regulation»

Jaap-Jan Roukens, PhD in Biomedical Sciences ( May 20) 
IBMM, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Jürg Gertsch)
«The endocannabinoid system in the adrenal glands and peptide endocannabinoid biosynthesis.»

 

S

Dipanjali Saha, PhD in Cell Biology ( May 22)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Ramanjaneyulu Allam)
«Ribonuclease inhibitor-mediated epigenetic control of Wnt/ β-catenin signalling in Myeloid Differentiation and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia»

Melanie Cristine Scalise, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (January 09)
DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Balmer)
«In search of obesogenic bacteria and their metabolites using gnotobiotic mice»

Camilo Mendez Schneider, PhD in Biomedical Engineering (January 14)
UDEM, Inselspital Bern/ Diabetes Center Berne, Medical Facult (Prof. Dr. Lilian Witthauer)
«Towards Contactless Detection of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in Diabetes Using Machine Learning: From Smartwatches to FMCW Radar»

Stefanie Schärli, PhD in Immunology (March 13) 
Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Christoph Schlapbach)
«Functional role of IL-18 in TH2-driven inflammatory skin disease

Isabel Roxana Schultz-Pernice, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (May 18) 
Institute of Virology and Immunology, Vetsuisse Faculty (Prof. Dr. Marco Alves)
«Brain Teasers: Deciphering the Riddles of Viral Neuropathologies using Human Neural Organoids»

João Afonso Sequeira de Carvalho, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (March 27) 
Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Nadia Isabel Mercader Huber)
«Investigation of Ligand and Receptor Genes during Zebrafish Heart Regeneration»

Anselm Walter Stark, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (February 03)
Inselspital, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Christoph Gräni)
«Diagnosing Hemodynamic Relevance in Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery: A Combined Clinical and Engineering Framework»

Jonas Alexander Steiner, DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy) (May 04)
Farm Animal Clinic, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern (Prof. Dr. Heiko Nathues)
«Influenza A viruses circulating in Swiss pig herds and farmers»

 

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Martin Samuel Wohlfender, PhD in Computational Biology (January 30)
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Faculty of Medicine (PD Dr. Christian Althaus)
«Innovative approaches to integrate new data sources for epidemic surveillance»

 

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Y

Jibira Yakubu, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (June 10) 
Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism/Translational Endocrinology Research, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Amit Vikram Pandey)
«Novel chemical leads for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer»

Nulan Yeliduosi, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (February 12)
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Annalisa Berzigotti, MD, PhD & Prof. Jordi Gracia-Sancho, PhD)
«The effects of carvedilol on the intrahepatic circulation in chronic liver disease»

Thatcha Yimthin, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (May 19) 
Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology (IVB), Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern (Prof. Dr. Jörg Jores)
«Deciphering Mycoplasma mycoides interactions with ruminant immune cells»

 

Z

Tuo Zhang, MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy) (February 05)
DBMR, Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. Ren-Wang Peng)
«Inducing ferroptosis in cancer by targeting ribosome biogenesis»