Profile
- Visceral Surgery – Gastroenterology – Hepatology
- Endoscopy Unit
- Transplantation
External Partners
ETH Zurich, Systems Biology and Laboratory of Biological Engineering; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Surgery, Stockholm; University of Geneva, Molecular Biology; University of Neuchâtel, Department of Psychology; Baveno Cooperation (EASL Research Consortium); University Hospital of Bologna, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Freiburg, Germany; Crick Institute London, UK; Harvard Medical School; Institute of Immunology and Department of Pathology University of Cambridge; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford; Department of Radiology, Jefferson University, USA; Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA; Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; SCCS (Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study); STCS (Swiss Transplant Cohort Study); LITMUS Study, DILI Registry Study (Prospective European Drug-induced liver injury Registry); ERN Rare-Liver (European Reference Network – Rare liver diseases)
Grants
- Cloëtta Medical Research Position: Mesothelial cell recruitment in injury repair and post-surgical adhesion (Prof. J. Zindel, CHF 505,655)
- Innosuisse – Suisse Innovation Agency: Caldre: Cholestasis and liver disease resolved (Dr. F. Baier, CHF 517,000)
- SNSF Starting Grant: Macrophage Aggregation Control against Scarring (MACScar) (Prof. J. Zindel, CHF 1,790,000)
- SNSF: Development of functional secretory IgA responses (Prof. A. Macpherson, CHF 1,100,000)
- SNSF: Unlock the early life pathological imprinting of Alzheimer’s disease via lifestyle (Prof. Z. Al Nabhani, CHF 258,263)
- Bridge – Discovery (Prof. A. Macpherson, CHF 1,561,346)
- SF Board Call: Functional impact of environmental factors on Sjögren’s syndrome and primary biliary cholangitis (Dr. K. Klein, Rheumatology, Prof. N. Semmo, Dr. M. Kolev, CHF 94,690)
- UniBE ID Grants: Antifibrotic effects of phospholipid-based drug formulations in experimental liver cirrhosis (Prof. A. Berzigotti, CHF 50,000)
- UniBE Initiator Grants: The myth of Argo in mechanobiology: Nuclear mechano-protective surveillance in liver fibrosis (Dr. E. Felli, CHF 30,000)