Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Faculty
«Cardiac graft quality with donation after circulatory death: Proteomics and sex difference investigations»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sarah Henning Longnus
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences»
Date of Thesis Defense: Monday, December 01, 2025
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.
DBMR, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Medical Faculty
«Oxidative Stress in Metabolic Liver Disease and PCSK9-Deficient Livers: A Focus on DNA Damage and Hepatocyte Proliferation»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Deborah M. Keogh-Stroka
Date of Thesis Defense: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, Zurich
«Placental extracellular vesicles: Comparative aspects in different placentation types»
Supervisor: PD Dr. Karl Rüdiger Klisch & Prof. D. Mariusz Kowalewski
Title: «DVM PhD (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Philosophy)»
Institute of Cell Biology (IZB), Phil Nat. Faculty
«Host Cell Vesicle Trafficking and Parasite Microtubule Dynamics During the Plasmodium Liver Stage»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Heussler
Date of Thesis Defense: Thursday, November 28, 2025
