Category Archives: Awards, honors, prizes

Congratulations and welcome (back) to Shanaz!

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The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) and the UNIL-CHUV technology transfer office (PACTT) awarded an InnoTREK scholarship to Dr Shanaz Diessler for her Sleep Sensor project for the monitoring and identification of sleep parameters .

The project began at the Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) of UNIL, in Professor Paul Franken’s lab.
Dr Shanaz Diessler will work again in this laboratory for the duration of her fellowship.
At the end of this year of InnoTREK scholarship, Dr Shanaz Diessler will be able to more easily embark on her business creation project.

Further information about the Sleep Sensor project: https://fondation-fit.ch/deux-bourses-innotrek-de-chf-100000-une-pour-sleep-sensor-et-une-pour-autonomyo/

Congratulations to Béatrice Desvergne on her election as honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS)’s Senate

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The Senate is the supreme organ of the SAMS. It is composed of ordinary members, honorary members, individual members and corresponding members, about 250 persons in total.

Ordinary members (delegates) include representatives of the medical faculties, members of the medical and nursing professions, representatives of various societies and organizations in the health care system. The statutes of the SAMS contain precise information on the composition of the Senate.

Further information about the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS): https://www.samw.ch/en/News/News.html

Interview of Prof. Béatrice Desvergne regarding this election: https://news.unil.ch/display/1608115449844

Congratulations to Alexandre Reymond on his election as president of the Forum for Genetic Research

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Alexandre Reymond is Professor of Human Genetics and Genomics and has been Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) at the University of Lausanne since 2015. His research group investigates how the structural organization of the human genome affects, for example, diseases of the nervous system. Alexandre Reymond is also President of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG).

After studying at the University of Lausanne, Alexandre Reymond continued his education at Harvard Medical School in Boston, at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Milan and at the University of Geneva, among others. He returned to Lausanne in 2004 when the CIG was founded.

Alexandre Reymond is taking over the presidency from Patrick Matthias, who headed the Genesis Research Forum for 12 years and is still involved in SCNAT as Vice President of Life Sciences Switzerland (LS 2 ) and as a member of the EASAC Biosciences Panel.

Further information on the Forum for Genetic Research available on the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ website: https://geneticresearch.scnat.ch/de/uuid/i/773e258d-9857-5d10-adde-bdf1af54ca7c-Alexandre_Reymond_ist_neuer_Pr%C3%A4sident_des_Forums_Genforschung

Congratulations to Sissy on her Young Investigator Award 2021 from the SSMG!

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Sissy Bassani (Reymond lab) received on Jan. 22, 2021 the Swiss Society of Medical Genetics (SSMG)’s Young Investigator Award 2020 for her presentation entitled “Variants in the USP48 ubiquitin hydrolase are associated with Autosomal Dominant Non-Syndromic Hereditary Hearing Loss”.

Further information on the event:

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N.Vastenhouw was in “L’Actu” magazine for her ERC Consolidator Grant

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Nadine Vastenhouw was awarded in winter 2020 with an ERC consolidator grant for her project: “Understanding gene regulation in nuclear space”.

Further information on “L’Actu” website: https://news.unil.ch/display/1609759458300

Link to the previous genomyx post related to this information: http://www.genomyx.ch/congratulations-to-n-vastenhouw-on-her-erc-consolidator-grant/

Website s of the Vastenhouw lab: https://www.vastenhouwlab.org/

Congratulations to N.Vastenhouw on her ERC Consolidator grant!

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The CIG warmly congratulates Nadine Vastenhouw on her ERC Consolidator grant for the project “Understanding gene regulation in nuclear space”! This will be celebrated along with her laboratory’s welcoming aperitif, as soon as gatherings are allowed on the campus again.

The list of awardees in 2020 is available on the ERC website: https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc-2020-cog-results-ls.pdf
Further information on this grant can be found here: https://erc.europa.eu/funding/consolidator-grants