Please find below a non-exhausive list of potential UNIL-EPFL Directors of thesis/host labs able to welcome you for an MD-PhD thesis. This list will be updated once a year.
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Laboratories | Thesis Directors | Subject proposed | |
Allergy and Immunology |
Perez Laurent |
Neutralizing antibodies and host-pathogen interaction for vaccine design against Toxoplasma gondii |
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Angiology | Rosenblatt-Velin Nathalie | ||
Cardiac surgery (CCV) | Tozzi Piergiorgio |
- percutaneous treatment of mitral valve regurgitation - surgical treatment of heart failure |
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Center for Integrative Genomics | Reymond Alexandre |
Genetic of autosomal recessive intellectual disability and developmental delay |
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Center for Integrative Genomics | Van Leeuwen Jolanda |
Systematic analysis of genetic interactions: “Monogenic” diseases often show diversity in disease severity across patients, which can be due to the presence of modifier mutations. Using genetic screens in cultured human cells, we aim to identify such modifier genes, to better understand differences in disease severity. |
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Clinical Neurosciences (DNC) | Du Pasquier Renaud | ||
Clinical Neurosciences (DNC) |
Ryvlin Philippe |
Epileptic seizure detection and forecasting using wearable devices and machine learning |
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Clinical Neurosciences (DNC) |
Serino Andrea |
Fundamental, Translational, healthy participants, patients, psychophysics, neuropsychology, fMRI, EEG, neural networks / computational modeling, virtual reality: Understanding and quantifying deficits of body representations following brain (stroke) or body (amputees, CRPS) damage, via a multimodal (psychophisics, neuroimaging, computational) approach |
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Clinical Neurosciences (DNC) | Sokolov Arseny | Cognitive neurorehabilitation & neurotechnology: Technology-assisted precision cognitive neurorehabilitation in acquired brain damage | |
Dermatology | Kuonen François | Transcriptional reprogramming / tumor cell plasticity / tumor-stroma interactions: Using high-throughput sequencing technologies, the lab is interested in deciphering the transcriptional reprogramming underlying tumor cell plasticity and/or tumor-stroma interactions governing skin cancer progression |
Laboratories | Thesis Directors | Subject proposed |
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism |
Pitteloud Nelly | |
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Sykiotis Gerasimos | |
Epidemiologie et systèmes de santé (DESS - Unisanté) | Pittet Valérie |
Modelling of treatment appropriateness in chronic diseases: the example of inflammatory bowel diseases: Using data collected in the Swiss IBD cohort study for 15 years on therapies and outcomes, the objective would be to model appropriateness of treatment using reinforcement learning techniques |
EPFL-SV IBI |
Deplancke Bart |
Laboratory of Systems Biology & Genetics: 1) Development of new single cell technologies to study tumor cell heterogeneity 2) Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying unhealthy fat mass expansion in the context of obesity |
EPFL-SV IBI |
Suter David | |
EPFL-SB ISIC |
Aye Yimon | |
EPFL-SV ISREC | Brisken Cathrin |
Endocrine control mechanisms in breast carcinogenesis |
EPFL-SV ISREC | Gonczy Pierre |
Cell and developmental biology: Modulating centriole assembly in proliferating systems Mechanisms of asymmetric cell division |
EPFL-SV BMI LPSY |
Herzog Michael |
The complexity of schizophrenia: Classically, schizophrenia research focuses on one paradigm, thought to be representative for the disease, in great detail. We have shown that many paradigms are much less representative than thought. We propose to use a plethora of tests and analysis methods to understand the disease rather than single tests. |
Epidemiology and Health Systems/Unisanté |
Bochud Murielle | |
Fundamental Microbiology | Veening Jan-Willem |
Systems and synthetic biology approaches to better understand the biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae with the overal goal to identify new treatment strategies: Development and spread of vaccine evasion and antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Fundamental Neurosciences | Mameli Manuel |
Neuronal circuits and plasticity mechanisms for motivation and related pathologies: Understanding the neuronal dynamics of reward and aversion processing |
Fundamental Neurosciences |
Neukomm Lukas |
Mechanism of neurodegeneration in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster |
Fundamental Oncology | Ho Ping-Chih |
Immunometabolic regulation for modulating anti-tumor immunity |
Laboratories | Thesis Directors | Subject proposed |
Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
Moradpour Darius |
Molecular virology and pathogenesis of hepatitis C and E |
Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
Harnessing the funcions of the gut microbiota to modulate the host immune responses: 1. Role of the gut microbiota in cancer immunotherapies 2. Role of the gut microbiota in Eosinophilic Esophagitis |
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Geriatric Medicine & Geriatric Rehabilitation |
D'Amelio Patrizia | |
Gynecology, obstetrics and genetics |
Baud David | Role of genital bacteria in human reproduction |
Immunooncology (ION) and Hematology (HEM) |
Arber Caroline |
Immunotherapies for hematologic malignancies: Development of engineered T cell therapies for hematologic malignancies. Mored detailed project information is available upon request. |
Infectious Diseases | Roger Thierry |
Harnessing innate immune training to improve sepsis management. |
Information Systems | Villa Alessandro | |
Institute of Sport Sciences (ISSUL) | Place Nicolas |
Neuromuscular plasticity to exercise: We use various techniques to investigate muscle plasticity in response to exercise and disease, from cell culture to non-invasive (e.g. evoked force, surface electromyography) measurements in exercising humans / patients. The specific topic for a potential MD/PhD will be discussed with the candidate. Potential projects : - Muscle adaptations to high intensity exercise in clinical populations - Adaptations to neuromuscular electrical stimulation - Mechanisms of muscle fatigue - ... |
Internal medicine | Marques-Vidal Pedro |
Cardiovascular epidemiology: Research on cardiovascular epidemiology, focusing on the associations between polygenic risk scores, metabolomics, diet, physical activity and the development of cardiovascular disease. Also research on quality of management of cardiovascular risk factors and the association between psychiatric and cardiovascular diseases. For more details contact the PIs at the website. |
Médecine de laboratoire et pathologie |
Unit of Cardiogenetics Research, SGM: Genetics of Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias |
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Medical radiology | Prior John | |
Microbiology | Fumeaux Coralie |
Study of the cell envelope in Gram negative bacteria and the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance |
Neonatal research laboratory |
Tolsa Jean-François | |
Neonatology | Giannoni Eric |
Neonatal innate immunity and sepsis: Host-pathogen interactions in group B streptococcal sepsis |
Occupational and Environmental Health | Guseva Canu Irina | |
Oncology | Michielin Olivier |
Precision oncology: Discovery of prognostic and predictive biomarkers for precision oncology |
Oto-rhino-laryngology | Tolstonog Genrich |
Laboratories | Thesis Directors | Subject proposed |
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Unit / Division of Pediatrics |
Renella Raffaele | |
Physiology | Amati Francesca |
Aging and muscle metabolism from the whole organism to organelle contact sites. Translational and mechanistic studies understanding cellular metabolism underpinning insulin resistance and aging. |
Pneumonology | Von Garnier Christophe | |
Psychiatry | Stoop Ron | |
Psychiatry - Psychiatric Neuroscience | Toni Nicolas |
Adult neurogenesis and depression: The goal of this project is to study the role of blood-cirvulating molceules on the regulation of adult hippocampal neuroegensis and its role in depression |
Oncology | Herrera Fernanda | |
Rheumatology |
Hügle Thomas | |
Swiss BioMotion Lab | Favre Julien | |
Swiss BioMotion Lab | Jolles-Haeberli Brigitte | |
Transplantation Immunopathology Service |
Golshayan Déla |
Role of T- and B-cell subsets in rejection and tolerance after solid organ transplantation: Immune profiling of rejection episodes and outcome after kidney transplantation |
Urology |
Derré Laurent |
Understanding tumor immunity in bladder cancer patients to develop new treatment |
Visceral surgery | Dormond Olivier |
Modulating oxidative stress as a strategy in the treatment hepatocellular carcinoma |
Vulnerabilities and social medicine- Unisanté |
Bodenmann Patrick |
Research aiming to decrease health iniquities among populations with vulnerabiities (e.g., homeless individuals, migrant populations, frequent users of emergency departement, Dead and hard of hearing populations). |