Speakers / Chairs

We are honored to present the following speakers at our symposium

Speakers

Dr. Piet Borst

🇳🇱 Amsterdam / Netherlands

Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Emeritus at the Department of Molecular Biology, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Dr. John Collinge

🇬🇧 London / Great Britain

Professor of Neurology
Head of the MRC Prion Unit and UCL Prion Disease Unit at UCL

Dr. Richard Flavell

🇺🇸 New Haven / USA

Professor of Immunobiology
Sterling Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland

Dr. Jan Hoeijmakers

🇳🇱 Rotterdam / Netherlands

Professor of Molecular Genetics
Principal Investigator at the Erasmus University MC (Rotterdam)

Dr. Giovanna Mallucci

🇬🇧 Cambridge / Great Britain

Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
Principal Investigator at the Altos Labs Cambridge Institute of Science

Dr. Ulrike Müller

🇩🇪 Heidelberg / Germany

Professor of Functional Genomics
Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology,
Heidelberg University, Germany

Dr. Shigekazu Nagata

🇯🇵 Tokyo / Japan

Professor of Biochemistry
Head of the Biochemistry & Immunology Department, Osaka University

Dr. Svante Pääbo

🇩🇪 Leipzig / Germany

Professor of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
*** Nobel Prize Winner 2022 ***
Head of the Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute

Dr. Lucas Pelkmans

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich

Dr. Magdalini Polymenidou

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Biomedicine
Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich

Dr. Esen Sefik

🇺🇸 San Francisco/USA

Assistant Professor of Immunology
Group Leader at Genentech

Dr. Tada Taniguchi

🇯🇵 Tokyo / Japan

Emeritus of Molecular Immunology
Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

Dr. Christian van Mering

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Computational Biology
Head of the Department of Molecular Life Sciences,
University of Zurich

Chairs

We are honored to present the following chairs at our symposium

Dr. Adriano Aguzzi

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Chief Executive Officer,
Institute for the Science of the Aging Brain, St. Gallen

Dr. Beatrice Beck-Schimmer

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Anesthesiology
Vice President of the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Zurich

Dr. Silvia Domcke

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Biology
Group Leader at the Department of Molecular Life Sciences
University of Zurich

Dr. Michael Hengartner

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Molecular Biology
President of the ETH Board Zurich

Dr. Francesca Peri

🇨🇭 Zurich / Switzerland

Professor of Cell Biology
Group Leader at the Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich