Elisa OricchioExpertise
Cancer geneticsMouse modelsTherapyStem cellsLymphoma
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Vamsi Krishna Polavarapu, Asli Ece Kasapoglu, Konstantina Georgakopoulou, Eleni Balli Past EPFL PhD Students Maria Christine Donaldson, Elena Battistello, Daniel Pereira Duarte, Frédérica Schyrr, Ruxandra-Andreea Lambuta, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Jixing Zhong, Justine Epiney Courses Cancer biology I BIO-471 The course covers in detail molecular mechanisms of cancer development with emphasis on cell
Virginia LangVirginia started in the medical research field as a Coordinator of Research at the Clinical Research Unit Kennedy Institute of Johns Hopkins Medical Center. She was responsible for the initiation, coordination, and management and/or analysis of research projects in the Clinical Research Unit. These projects were funded by various Federal Government Agencies. Subsequent to Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Virginia entered the field of Human Factors through the doctoral program at SUNY Binghamton. Virginia held a fellowship at the Aeromedical Research Laboratory of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio and a fellowship at NASA. Her research dealt with cognitive factors that differentially affect the characteristics of visual displays. Applications of this research are directly related to various medical devices and software applications providing Medical Device Human Factors by HirLan clients with 30 years of Human Factors experience. In addition, Virginia has extensive experience in the areas of product design, Customer Centered Participatory Design processes, and product lifecycle management. She is also known in the Human Computer Interaction and Usability Communities for her innovative techniques for collecting and incorporating user/customer feedback throughout the product lifecycle. In July 2014, Virginia founded and established the HirLan Institute of Human Factors with labs in Carlsbad, California and a Consortium arrangement in London, UK. HirLan supports Top Ten pharma/medical device companies, as well as, start-ups with consulting and testing services. These services are in conjunction with their clients’ FDA 510(k) and CE mark applications. Virginia holds a PhD in Cognitive-Experimental Psychology from SUNY Binghamton, and a Master of Science (ABT) in Applied Technology, Systems Science from SUNY Binghamton.
Marc ChambonTeaching & PhD Courses Methods: from disease models to therapy BIOENG-518 This course will describe methods underlying translational approaches from disease modeling and characterization to therapeutic applications. The presented techniques will be complemented by hands-on rotations in the technological platforms of the School of Life Sciences.
Jieping ZhuTeaching & PhD PhD Students Morgane Elodie Marie Delattre, Paul Jean Gri, Clément Paul Adrien Rols, Yun Hao Shawn Teh Past EPFL PhD Students Jean-Baptiste Gualtierotti, Ala Bunescu, Thomas Buyck, Olivier Wagnières, Minh Tu Ha, Dylan Jean Robert Dagoneau, Antonin François Roland Clemenceau, Cyril Piemontesi, Nicolas David Gaeng, Mathias Mamboury, Raphaël Beltran, Balázs Budai, Teerawat Songsichan, Alexandre Julien Florent Leclair, Bastien Delayre, Rémi Julien Sylvain Andres, Dina Boyarskaya, Rémi Lavernhe,
Jeremy LuterbacherExpertise
Biomass conversion Heterogeneous catalysis
See: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lpdc/luterbacher/ Education Postdoc | Chemical Engineering 2014 – 2014 Univsersity of Wisconsin-Madison PhD | Chemical Engineering 2012 – 2012 Cornell University Master | Chemical Engineering 2010 – 2010 Cornell University Master | Chemical Engineering 2007 – 2007 �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne Bachelor | Chemistry and Ch Wouter Richard KarthausTeaching & PhD PhD Students Jillian Rose Love, Estelle Deby, Ester Simkova, Turan Badalli Courses Cellular and molecular biology II BIO-207 This course is aimed to familiarize students with the 3D organization of a eukaryotic cell, its compartmentalization, how cellular compartments communicate together and how a cell communicates with its environment. The related molecular mechanisms will be discussed. Practical - Karthaus Lab BIO-616 Students will learn 1) how organoids c
Didier TronoAfter obtaining an M.D. from the University of Geneva and completing a clinical training in pathology, internal medicine and infectious diseases in Geneva and at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Didier Trono embarked in a scientific career at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of MIT. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to launch a center for AIDS research. He moved back to Europe seven years later, before taking the reins of the newly created EPFL School of Life Sciences, which he directed from 2004 to 2012. He is now actively engaged in the efforts of Switzerland to integrate new technologies in the fields of precision medicine and personalized health.
Sandra Eloise KjeldsenPositions
2008- : Laborantine (Laboratoire du Pr D. Trono), Laboratoire de virologie et génétique, EPFL, Suisse.
2004-2008: Laborantine (Laboratoire du Pr A. Trumpp), ISREC, Suisse.
2004: Assistante de recherche (Laboratoire du Pr G. Corradin), Institut de Biochimie, Université de Lausanne, Suisse.
Éducation
1999 - 2004:
Diplôme en Biologie (spécialités : Immunologie, Biochimie et Pharmacologie)
Université de Lausanne, Suisse.
Juin 1999:
Baccalauréat Scientifique, France. Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa CorreiaThroughout my PhD and postdoctoral studies I was trained in world-renowned laboratories and institutions in the United States of America (University of Washington and The Scripps Research Institute). Very early in my scientific career I found out my fascination about protein structure and function. My PhD studies evolved in the direction of immunogen design and vaccine engineering which sparked my interest in the many needs and opportunities in vaccinology and translational research. My efforts resulted in an enlightening piece of work where for the first time, computationally designed immunogens elicited potent neutralizing antibodies. During my postdoctoral studies I joined a chemical biology laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute. In this stage I developed novel chemoproteomics methods for the identification of protein-small molecule interaction sites in complex proteomes. In March 2015, I joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland as a tenure track assistant professor. The focus of my research group is to develop computational tools for protein design with particular emphasis in applying these strategies to immunoengineering (e.g. vaccine and cancer immunotherapy). The activities in my laboratory focus on computational design methods development and experimental characterization of the designed proteins. Our laboratory has been awarded with 2 prestigious research grants from the European Research Council. Lastly, I have been awarded the prize for best teacher of Life sciences in 2019.
Edoardo CharbonEdoardo Charbon (SM’00 F’17) received the Elektrotechnik Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from the University of California at San Diego, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Bosch, X-Fab, Texas Instruments, Maxim, Sony, Agilent, and the Carlyle Group. He was with Cadence Design Systems from 1995 to 2000, where he was the architect of the company's initiative on information hiding for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc., as the Chief Architect, where he led the development of wireless 3-D CMOS image sensors. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where is a full professor since 2015. From 2008 to 2016 he was full professor and chair at the Delft University of Technology, where he spearheaded the university's effort on cryogenic electronics for quantum computing as part of QuTech. He has been the driving force behind the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology, which is mass-produced since 2015 and is present in smartphones, telemeters, proximity sensors, and medical diagnostics tools. His interests span from 3-D vision, LiDAR, FLIM, FCS, NIROT to super-resolution microscopy, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for quantum computing. He has authored or co-authored over 400 papers and two books, and he holds 23 patents. Dr. Charbon is a distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE.
Stephan MorgenthalerACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of Applied Statistics, EPFL, 1988-present
Associate Professor of Statistics, Yale University, 1987-1988
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Yale University, 1983-1987
Instructor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-1984
Myriam BrikiExpertise
PharmacometricsTherapeutic drug monitoringAnalytical chemistry
Myriam Briki obtained her BSc from the University of Lausanne after spending her final year at Uppsala University (Sweden), where she was able to focus mainly on toxicological sciences. As a result, she chose to specialize in pharmacology and toxicology during her MSc back in Lausanne. She is now doing her PhD under the direction of Prof. Sandro Carrara (EPFL) and Dr. Monia Guidi (CHUV).Her project, carried out at the University Hospit
Guido HaefeliTeaching & PhD PhD Students Federico Ronchetti, Gauri Napoletano Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Carina Trippl Courses Particle detection PHYS-440 The course will cover the physics of particle detectors. It will introduce the experimental techniques used in nuclear and particle physics. The lecture includes the interaction of particles with matter, scintillators, gas detectors, silicon detectors, detectors for particle ID and photo-detectors.
