Scholarships
Dr. med. Julia Velz
Universitätsspital Zürich
Neurochirurgie
Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2020 - 30.06.2021, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, Frankreich
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"
Dr. med. Pascale Tinguely
Inselspital Bern
Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine
Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2020, Department of Clinical Science at Danderyd University Hospital, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Schweden
Scholarship amount: CHF 33'333
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Daniel Candinas
"Local ablation versus surgical resection for colorectal liver metastases - Population-based analyses on survival and local recurrence prediction"
Dr. med. Thomas Nestelberger
Universitätsspital Basel
Kardiologie
Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2020 - 20.06.2021, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Kanada
Scholarship amount: CHF 15'000
Mentor: Prof. Christian Müller
"Incidence, predictors, biochemical signatures and prognostic value of spontaneous coronary artery dissection"
Dr. Aurélien Lathuilière
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. Anton Becker
Universitätsspital Zürich
Institut für diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie
Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2019, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA
Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000
Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Juerg Hodler
"Predicting metabolic (FDG-PET) cancer activity from anatomical (CT) information alone using neural networks"
Dr. med. Céline Deslarzes-Dubuis
CHUV: Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois
Chirurgie vasculaire
Duration of scholarship: 01.06.2018 - 31.05.2019, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, California, USA
Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000
Mentor: Prof. Jean-Marc Corpataux
"Endovascular treatment of complex aortic diseases (aneurysm and dissection)"
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. Julia Velz
Universitätsspital Zürich
Neurochirurgie
Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2020 - 30.06.2021, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, Frankreich
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"
Dr. med. Pascale Tinguely
Inselspital Bern
Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine
Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2020, Department of Clinical Science at Danderyd University Hospital, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Schweden
Scholarship amount: CHF 33'333
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Daniel Candinas
"Local ablation versus surgical resection for colorectal liver metastases - Population-based analyses on survival and local recurrence prediction"
Dr. med. Thomas Nestelberger
Universitätsspital Basel
Kardiologie
Duration of scholarship: 01.07.2020 - 20.06.2021, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Kanada
Scholarship amount: CHF 15'000
Mentor: Prof. Christian Müller
"Incidence, predictors, biochemical signatures and prognostic value of spontaneous coronary artery dissection"
Dr. Aurélien Lathuilière
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. Anton Becker
Universitätsspital Zürich
Institut für diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie
Duration of scholarship: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2019, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA
Scholarship amount: CHF 40'000
Mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Juerg Hodler
"Predicting metabolic (FDG-PET) cancer activity from anatomical (CT) information alone using neural networks"
Dr. med. Céline Deslarzes-Dubuis
CHUV: Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois
Chirurgie vasculaire
Duration of scholarship: 01.06.2018 - 31.05.2019, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, California, USA
Scholarship amount: CHF 20'000
Mentor: Prof. Jean-Marc Corpataux
"Endovascular treatment of complex aortic diseases (aneurysm and dissection)"
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