B-LAB - Key Persons
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- Department of Internal Medicine Specialties / Division of Rheumatology
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- Delegate to the Dean 's Office for Research Funding
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- Dean 's Delegate for Digital Issues
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- Delegate to the Dean 's Office - Faculty Research Platforms & Premises
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- Delegate to the Dean 's Office - Data
Caroline Samer obtained a medical degree in Geneva in 2001. After specialising in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology and toxicology, she completed a PhDin pharmacogenomics, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular pharmacology in Sydney. She returned to the HUG in 2009, first as a senior clinical associate, then attending physician and Head of the Therapeutic Information Centre in the Divison of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Department. In 2019, she took over responsibility for the Pharmacogenomics and Personalised Therapy Unit. In October 2022, she is appointed Head of the HUG Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology .
Her research focuses on personalising drug therapy and making it safer (precision medicine approach) by measuring gene-environment-disease interactions at pharmacokinetic level, and by exploiting advances in various biomic technologies, particularly pharmacogenomics. She is also President of the Swiss Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSPTC), Vice-President of Swissethics and of the Research Ethics Committee of the Canton of Geneva (CCER), President of the Clinical Section and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union for Clinical and Fundamental Pharmacology (IUPHAR) and of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).
Privat-docent at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine in 2017, then assistant professor in 2020,, she was appointed associate professor in the academic Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergencies in October 2022. As of 15 July 2023, she is a delegate of the Dean's Office of the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine for data issues.
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- Dean
- Dean 's Delegate for Digital Issues
Daniel Huber began his academic career with a degree in zoology from the University of Zurich in 1998. After a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Lausanne in 2005, he moved to the United States for a post-doctoral fellowship at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and at the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia, where he continued his research into the sensory and motor circuits of the cortex. Winner of an SNSF professorial fellowship, he returned to Switzerland and set up a laboratory in the Department of Basic Neurosciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the UNIGE in 2012. He then obtained several prestigious grants, including an ERC-consolidator grant from the European Union, which enabled him to extend his research into the sensory and motor neuroprosthetics of the hand. An assistant professor in the Department of Basic Neuroscience since 2012, he has been appointed associate professor in June 2019 and Director of the Interfaculty Neuroscience Centre in 2022. As of 15 July, he is a delegate to the Dean's Office for digital issues.
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- Delegate to the Dean 's Office for Research Funding
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- Delegate to the Dean 's Office - Faculty Research Platforms & Premises
Stéphanie Hugues studied in Nice, where she obtained a PhD in immunology in 2002. After a post-doctorate in Paris at the Institut Curie, she obtained a research post at INSERM in 2006. In 2007, she joined the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, where she was appointed reasearch and teaching fellow. Awarded an SNSF fellowship in 2010, she was appointed assistant professor and developed an independent research laboratory. Her research projects focus on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms modulating our immune system, which can lead to autoimmune disorders characterised by a breakdown in the body's tolerance of its own tissues, or conversely an altered response during the development of tumours. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Medicine's Centre for Inflammation Research, which was set up in 2020.
Appointed associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine in 2016, she was promoted to full professor in April 2023. As of 15 July 2023, she is a delegate of the Dean's Office of the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine for faculty research platforms and premises, along with Professor Serge Nef.
Job Titles:
- Delegate to the Dean 's Office - Data
- Delegate to the Dean 's Office - Faculty Research Platforms and Premises