Dr. Joye is the Executive Director of Swiss Biobanking Platform. She graduated from Lausanne University in health sciences with a PhD in virology in 2004. In parallel, she obtained a master in health management, and entered the exciting field of biobanks in 2005. Her experience is mainly as a reference in the development of state of the art biobanks, first in oncology in 2007, then as a centralized institutional biobank in a hospital setting in 2013.

In the Biobanking field, she implemented the first general consent for research purposes in Switzerland and was always very interested in biobank sustainability. In 2015, she took the position of the Executive Director of the national coordination platform in Switzerland for biobanking activities called Swiss Biobanking Platform, with the vision to promote access and usage of the existing and future banked bio-specimens for research purposes in the human as in the non-human fields.