Scholarships

Scholarship Holders
Dr. med. Beat Moeckli
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Dr. med. Beat Moeckli

University of Geneva Hospitals

Visceral surgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.04. - 31.07.2023, University of California in Los Angeles, USA, and at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Christian Toso

The use of artificial intelligence to predict outcomes after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma using multimodal data input

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Dr. med. Sarah Stricker
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Dr. med. Sarah Stricker

University Hospital Basel

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2022 - 31.10.2023, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Necker Hôpital Enfants Malades, Paris, Frankreich

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Bozinov

Advanced diagnostic and neuroendoscopic surgical management of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders in children aiming at improved neurocognitive outcome

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Dr. med Indrit Bègue
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Dr. med Indrit Bègue

University of Geneva

Psychiatry

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2022 – 31.10.2023, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Stefan Kaiser

Brain circuitry therapeutics for negative symptoms of schizophrenia with cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Dr. med. Lukas Graf
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Dr. med. Lukas Graf

University Hospital Basel

ENT

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass. Eye and Ear, Harvard University, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 45'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Christof Stieger

Ear microsurgery training and development of implantable microphones

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Dr. med Levin Häni
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Dr. med Levin Häni

Inselspital Bern

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2021 – 31.08.2022, Freiburg Universitätsspital, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Scholarship amount: CHF 24'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe

Minimally invasive surgical closure of spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks in spontaneous in-tracranial hypotension

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Dr. med. Alessandra Bosch
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Dr. med. Alessandra Bosch

University Children's Hospital Zurich

Hematology and Oncology

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2023, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Haematology and Oncology, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada

Scholarship amount: CHF 11'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Michael Grotzer

Training in the innovative field of childhood bleeding & clotting disorders

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Dr. med. Laura Binkert
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Dr. med. Laura Binkert

Inselspital Bern

Emergency Centre for children and adolescents

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2021 - 30.06.2022, BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, Kanada

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: PD Dr. med. Kristina Keitel

Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine with a specific focus on point-of-care ultrasonography as well as medical simulation

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Stergios Tsartsalis, MD
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Stergios Tsartsalis, MD

Geneva University Hospitals

Department of Psychiatry

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2021 - 31.10.2021, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Sciences, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 17'000

Mentor: Prof. Jean-Michel Aubry

Research fellowship. Title: "Transcriptomic investigation of microglial and astrocyte populations in Alzheimer's disease: a human brain port-mortem single-nucleus RNA sequencing study"

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Zacharenia Kallinikou, MD
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Zacharenia Kallinikou, MD

Hospital and University of Fribourg

Department of Cardiology

Duration of scholarship: 10.05.2021 - 01.08.2021, Royal Brompton Hospital, CMR Unit, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Stephane Cook

3-month fellowship in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR)

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Corrado Garbazza, MD

University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK), Basel

Centre for Chronobiology

Duration of scholarship: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2023, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Circadian Medicine Clinic, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Harvard Medical School, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 38'146

Mentor: Prof. Christian Cajochen

Clinical fellowship in circadian medicine and research appointment in circadian pathophysiology. Title: "Circadian Medicine: Studying the impact of circadian disruption on human health to improve the clinical management of patients with circadian rhythm disorders."

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Guillaume Maitre, MD
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Guillaume Maitre, MD

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)

Pediatric Intensive Care

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2021, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Scholarship amount: CHF 10'000

Mentor: Dr. Marie-Hélène Perez

Clinical advanced pediatric critical care fellowship incl. descriptive research project about pediatric organ donation in Canada

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Julia Velz, MD
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Julia Velz, MD

University Hospital Zurich

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

Scholarship amount: CHF 33'333

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Luca Regli

Specialized training in the field of Pediatric Neurosurgery / "Investigate the underlying genetical and immunological mechanisms in medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor"

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Aurélien Lathuilière, MD

HUG-Hôpital de Bellerive, Collonges-Bellerive

Neurology

Duration of scholarship: 01.8.2019 - 31.07.2020, Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Andreas Kleinschmidt

Personalized medicine in Alzheimer's disease

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Dr. med. Marian Severin Wettstein

Universitätsspital Zürich

Klinik für Urologie

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2019, Princess Margaret Cancer center, Toronto CDN

Scholarship amount: CHF 36'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hermanns

"Underutilization of re-resection in T1 bladder cancer and the impact on oncological outcomes"

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Dr. Angéline Adam

CHUV

Service d'alcoologie

Duration of scholarship: 01.7. - 31.12.2018, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 41'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jean-Bernard Draeppen

Training in health services research methods focusing on unhealthy alcohol use screening and intervention approaches in primary care

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Dr. med. Eleonora Seelig

Universitätsspital Basel

Klinik für Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Metabolismus

Duration of scholarship: 01.04. - 31.07.2018, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust MRC Institute of Metabolic Science

Scholarship amount: CHF 21'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Marc Donath

"Effects of metformin on the central nervous system"

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Dr. med. Arseny Sokolov

Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne

Département des Neurosciences Cliniques

Duration of scholarship: 1.9.2017 - 31.8.2018, University of California San Francisco, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Philippe Ryvlin, CHUV

"Technology-based therapeutic approaches for cognitive neurology"

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Dr. med Flurina Saner

University Hospital Basel

Woman's Clinic

Duration of scholarship: 01.01. - 31.12.2018, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. V. Heinzelmann, University Hospital Basel

"Analysis of clinical and genetical characteristics in long-term survivors with ovarian cancer"

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Dr. med. Anna Hirschmann

University Hospital Basel

Radiology

Duration of scholarship: 1.12.2016 - 31.3.2017, New York University, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. E. Merkle, University Hospital basel

"Dynamic ankle and knee joint MR imaging using LiveView sequence"

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Dr. med. Bigna Buddeberg Bichsel

University Hospital Basel

Anaesthesiology

Duration of scholarship: 1. April 2016 - 31. März 2017, St. George's University Hospital, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 51'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Thierry Girard, University Hospital Basel

"Assessment of right ventricular function and changes in the pulmonary circulation in preeclampsia"

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Dr. med. Andreas Meier

University Hospital Zurich

Insitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Duration of scholarship: 1.11.2015 - 31.10.2016, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 46'600

Mentor: Prof. Jürg Hodler, University Hospital Zurich

"Radiogenomic assessment of tumor heterogeneity in ovarian cancer"

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Dr. med. Petra Sabine Zimmermann

Universitäts-Kinderspital Bern

Infectiology

Duration of scholarship: 01.09.2015 - 30.10.2016, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Aebi

Training in Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

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Dr. med. Christian Martijn Schürch

Universität Bern

Pathology

Duration of scholarship: 01.08.2015 - 31.07.2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutschland

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Aurel Perren

1) Special training in hematopathology. 2) Research Project a) Establishment of a next-generation sequencing panel to analyse the clonal evaluation and disease progression in the bone marrow of patients suffering from myelodys-plastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN). b) Immunohistochemical analysis of "nice factors" from the bone marrow microenvironment and their influence on MDS/MPN progression

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Dr. med. Florence Hoogewoud

HUG Genève

Ophthalmology

Duration of scholarship: 01.06.2015 - 31.05.2016, Hôpital Cochin-Uvéites et Hôpital Lariboisière-Rétine, Paris, France

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. G. Thumann

Six months of intensive training in the uveitis subspecialty and a participation in a clinical research project. Six months of training in medical retina

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Dr. med. Frederique Hovaguimian

Universitätsspital Zürich

Duration of scholarship: 01.03.2014 - 28.02.2015, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Donath R. Spahn

Master of Clinical Research Methods and Clinical Research Project.

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Dr. med. Baharak Babouee Flury

Universitätsspital Basel

Duration of scholarship: 01.10.2014 - 30.09.2015, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit (AMRHAI) of the Health and Protection Agency UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 43'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. M. Battegay

Emerging Carbapenem-Resistance in Enterobacter spp: What is the threat we face?

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Dr. med. Alexia Anagnostopoulos

Zürich

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2015 - 31.12.2015, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Weber

Projekt: Research Fellowship Epidemiology. Subject: Barriers to Treatment in HIV/Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infected Intravenous Drug Users

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Former Scholarship Holders
Dr. med. Beat Moeckli
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Dr. med. Beat Moeckli

University of Geneva Hospitals

Visceral surgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.04. - 31.07.2023, University of California in Los Angeles, USA, and at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Christian Toso

The use of artificial intelligence to predict outcomes after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma using multimodal data input

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Dr. med. Sarah Stricker
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Dr. med. Sarah Stricker

University Hospital Basel

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2022 - 31.10.2023, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Necker Hôpital Enfants Malades, Paris, Frankreich

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Bozinov

Advanced diagnostic and neuroendoscopic surgical management of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders in children aiming at improved neurocognitive outcome

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Dr. med Indrit Bègue
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Dr. med Indrit Bègue

University of Geneva

Psychiatry

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2022 – 31.10.2023, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Stefan Kaiser

Brain circuitry therapeutics for negative symptoms of schizophrenia with cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Dr. med. Lukas Graf
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Dr. med. Lukas Graf

University Hospital Basel

ENT

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass. Eye and Ear, Harvard University, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 45'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Christof Stieger

Ear microsurgery training and development of implantable microphones

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Dr. med Levin Häni
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Dr. med Levin Häni

Inselspital Bern

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2021 – 31.08.2022, Freiburg Universitätsspital, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Scholarship amount: CHF 24'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe

Minimally invasive surgical closure of spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks in spontaneous in-tracranial hypotension

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Dr. med. Alessandra Bosch
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Dr. med. Alessandra Bosch

University Children's Hospital Zurich

Hematology and Oncology

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2023, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Haematology and Oncology, Toronto, Ontario, Kanada

Scholarship amount: CHF 11'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Michael Grotzer

Training in the innovative field of childhood bleeding & clotting disorders

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Dr. med. Laura Binkert
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Dr. med. Laura Binkert

Inselspital Bern

Emergency Centre for children and adolescents

Duration of scholarship: 01.12.2021 - 30.06.2022, BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, Kanada

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: PD Dr. med. Kristina Keitel

Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine with a specific focus on point-of-care ultrasonography as well as medical simulation

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Stergios Tsartsalis, MD
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Stergios Tsartsalis, MD

Geneva University Hospitals

Department of Psychiatry

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2021 - 31.10.2021, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Sciences, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 17'000

Mentor: Prof. Jean-Michel Aubry

Research fellowship. Title: "Transcriptomic investigation of microglial and astrocyte populations in Alzheimer's disease: a human brain port-mortem single-nucleus RNA sequencing study"

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Zacharenia Kallinikou, MD
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Zacharenia Kallinikou, MD

Hospital and University of Fribourg

Department of Cardiology

Duration of scholarship: 10.05.2021 - 01.08.2021, Royal Brompton Hospital, CMR Unit, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Stephane Cook

3-month fellowship in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR)

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Corrado Garbazza, MD

University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK), Basel

Centre for Chronobiology

Duration of scholarship: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2023, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Circadian Medicine Clinic, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Harvard Medical School, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 38'146

Mentor: Prof. Christian Cajochen

Clinical fellowship in circadian medicine and research appointment in circadian pathophysiology. Title: "Circadian Medicine: Studying the impact of circadian disruption on human health to improve the clinical management of patients with circadian rhythm disorders."

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Guillaume Maitre, MD
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Guillaume Maitre, MD

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)

Pediatric Intensive Care

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2021, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Scholarship amount: CHF 10'000

Mentor: Dr. Marie-Hélène Perez

Clinical advanced pediatric critical care fellowship incl. descriptive research project about pediatric organ donation in Canada

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Julia Velz, MD
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Julia Velz, MD

University Hospital Zurich

Neurosurgery

Duration of scholarship: 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

Scholarship amount: CHF 33'333

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Luca Regli

Specialized training in the field of Pediatric Neurosurgery / "Investigate the underlying genetical and immunological mechanisms in medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor"

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Aurélien Lathuilière, MD

HUG-Hôpital de Bellerive, Collonges-Bellerive

Neurology

Duration of scholarship: 01.8.2019 - 31.07.2020, Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Andreas Kleinschmidt

Personalized medicine in Alzheimer's disease

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Dr. med. Marian Severin Wettstein

Universitätsspital Zürich

Klinik für Urologie

Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2019, Princess Margaret Cancer center, Toronto CDN

Scholarship amount: CHF 36'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hermanns

"Underutilization of re-resection in T1 bladder cancer and the impact on oncological outcomes"

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Dr. Angéline Adam

CHUV

Service d'alcoologie

Duration of scholarship: 01.7. - 31.12.2018, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 41'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jean-Bernard Draeppen

Training in health services research methods focusing on unhealthy alcohol use screening and intervention approaches in primary care

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Dr. med. Eleonora Seelig

Universitätsspital Basel

Klinik für Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Metabolismus

Duration of scholarship: 01.04. - 31.07.2018, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust MRC Institute of Metabolic Science

Scholarship amount: CHF 21'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Marc Donath

"Effects of metformin on the central nervous system"

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Dr. med. Arseny Sokolov

Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne

Département des Neurosciences Cliniques

Duration of scholarship: 1.9.2017 - 31.8.2018, University of California San Francisco, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Philippe Ryvlin, CHUV

"Technology-based therapeutic approaches for cognitive neurology"

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Dr. med Flurina Saner

University Hospital Basel

Woman's Clinic

Duration of scholarship: 01.01. - 31.12.2018, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. V. Heinzelmann, University Hospital Basel

"Analysis of clinical and genetical characteristics in long-term survivors with ovarian cancer"

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Dr. med. Anna Hirschmann

University Hospital Basel

Radiology

Duration of scholarship: 1.12.2016 - 31.3.2017, New York University, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. E. Merkle, University Hospital basel

"Dynamic ankle and knee joint MR imaging using LiveView sequence"

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Dr. med. Bigna Buddeberg Bichsel

University Hospital Basel

Anaesthesiology

Duration of scholarship: 1. April 2016 - 31. März 2017, St. George's University Hospital, London, UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 51'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Thierry Girard, University Hospital Basel

"Assessment of right ventricular function and changes in the pulmonary circulation in preeclampsia"

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Dr. med. Andreas Meier

University Hospital Zurich

Insitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Duration of scholarship: 1.11.2015 - 31.10.2016, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 46'600

Mentor: Prof. Jürg Hodler, University Hospital Zurich

"Radiogenomic assessment of tumor heterogeneity in ovarian cancer"

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Dr. med. Petra Sabine Zimmermann

Universitäts-Kinderspital Bern

Infectiology

Duration of scholarship: 01.09.2015 - 30.10.2016, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Aebi

Training in Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

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Dr. med. Christian Martijn Schürch

Universität Bern

Pathology

Duration of scholarship: 01.08.2015 - 31.07.2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutschland

Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Aurel Perren

1) Special training in hematopathology. 2) Research Project a) Establishment of a next-generation sequencing panel to analyse the clonal evaluation and disease progression in the bone marrow of patients suffering from myelodys-plastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN). b) Immunohistochemical analysis of "nice factors" from the bone marrow microenvironment and their influence on MDS/MPN progression

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Dr. med. Florence Hoogewoud

HUG Genève

Ophthalmology

Duration of scholarship: 01.06.2015 - 31.05.2016, Hôpital Cochin-Uvéites et Hôpital Lariboisière-Rétine, Paris, France

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. G. Thumann

Six months of intensive training in the uveitis subspecialty and a participation in a clinical research project. Six months of training in medical retina

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Dr. med. Frederique Hovaguimian

Universitätsspital Zürich

Duration of scholarship: 01.03.2014 - 28.02.2015, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Scholarship amount: CHF 30'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Donath R. Spahn

Master of Clinical Research Methods and Clinical Research Project.

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Dr. med. Baharak Babouee Flury

Universitätsspital Basel

Duration of scholarship: 01.10.2014 - 30.09.2015, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit (AMRHAI) of the Health and Protection Agency UK

Scholarship amount: CHF 43'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. M. Battegay

Emerging Carbapenem-Resistance in Enterobacter spp: What is the threat we face?

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Dr. med. Alexia Anagnostopoulos

Zürich

Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2015 - 31.12.2015, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, USA

Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Weber

Projekt: Research Fellowship Epidemiology. Subject: Barriers to Treatment in HIV/Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infected Intravenous Drug Users

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