Scholarships

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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)
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."

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

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"
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
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"
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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
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
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?
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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)
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."

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

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"
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
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"
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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
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
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?
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