Our speakers

Discover the experts who will share their insights at the Swiss Biobanking Day.

Dr. med. Susanne Driessen

Chair ELSI advisory group SPHN Past-President swissethics

Prof. Adrian Egli

Director, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich

Dr. Barbara Flückiger Schwarzenbach

Deputy head of the National Research unit at the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

Prof. Antoine Geissbühler

Dean of the faculty of medicine, University of Geneva; Director of teaching and research, Geneva University Hospitals; Head of the division of eHealth and telemedicine, Geneva University Hospitals

Prof. Jens K. Habermann

Director General BBMRI-ERIC

Dr. Christine Joye

Executive Director of Swiss Biobanking

Prof. Carlo Largiadèr

President of SBP and Head of Liquid Biobank Bern

Prof. Marialuisa Lavitrano

Full professor at the University Milano – Bicocca; Director BBMRI.it, Italian Node of BBMRI-ERIC; Director, vice-president EOSC

Dr. Liis Leitsalu

EBMG registered genetic counsellor, The myGenome initiative

Dr. Katrin Männik

Chief Operating Officer at the Health2030 Genome Center

Dr. Sara Nussbeck

Head of Central Biobank UMG

Prof. Jivko Stoyanov

Group Leader at Swiss Paraplegic Research. Head of the SwiSCI Biobank

Penelope Timpert-Argust

EUPATI Fellow and certified Swiss Patient Expert

Prof. André Uitterlinden

Professor of Complex Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam; Coordinator Genome of Europe

Dr. med. Michael Weisskopf

Head Research Biobanking Service Center at Universitätsspital Zürich

Dr. Stéphanie Wyss

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)