Faculty of Medicine

University Clinics Inselspital

Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department provides an interdisciplinary service in the field of visceral surgery and medicine. In the context of highly specialized medicine, it primarily treats patients with tumors and other complex abdominal diseases.

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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)