Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.
DBMR, Medical Faculty
«Integrating Patient-Derived Models and Spatial Phenotyping to Advance Personalized Medicine Approaches in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio, Dr. Marta De Menna
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences»
Date of Thesis Defense: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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.
Institute for Research in Biomedicine.Bellinzona.
«Characterization of spatial determinants of immune dysfunction and mechanisms of therapeutic immune modulation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma»
Supervisor:Dr. Santiago F. González
Date of Thesis Defense: Friday, June 19, 2026
DCBP, Faculty of Science
«Deciphering the cellular response to codon-specific translational defects»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Andreas Leidel
Title: «PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology»
Date of Thesis Defense: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine
«Gut microbiota-driven immune imprinting during a critical time window at weaning»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ziad Al Nabhani
Title: «PhD in Immunology»
Date of Thesis Defense: Monday, June 15, 2026
