Approved Projects 2018
Driver Projects (jointly with SPHN)
SHFN: SWISSHEART Failure Network
Buhmann, Joachim (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, USZ, HUG, USB, InselBE, CHUV, CIBM, UNIL
Pers. Medicine / Pers. Health Research Projects
Targeting the brown fat - Personalized strategies for treatment of metabolism
Wolfrum, Christian (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, EPFL
Cancer radiomics targeted by pencil beam scanning proton therapy for deformable tumours
Safai, Sairos (PSI Villigen) | PSI, ETHZ
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iDoc Projects (interdisciplinary Doctoral Projects)
Personalized therapeutic strategies for patients with atrial fibrillation
Vesin, Jean-Mark (EPF Lausanne) | EPFL, CHUV
Examining the immune suppressive role of neutrophils in human colorectral cancer
Radtke, Freddy (EPF Lausanne) | EPFL, CHUV
Generation of an RNA base editor approach to treat ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
Schwank, Gerald (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, KISPI
In silico clinical trials on personalized preventive measures for managing hip fractures in the elderly
Helgason, Benedikt (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, UBC
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Ex vivo image-based drug profiling for discovery and personalization of myelofibrosis treatments
Snijder, Berend (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, USZ
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Novel approach to refining risk stratification for colorectal cancer patients: application of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) to predict outcome and molecular subtyping
Thiran, Jean-Philippe (EPF Lausanne) | EPFL, UniBE
An microelectronics-based in-vitro platform for testing major arrhythmic events in the rare cardiac disease ARVC/D
Hierlemann, Andreas (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, USZ
Transition Postdoc Fellowship Projects (TPdF)
Towards Personalized Therapy of Hematopoietic Diseases: ldentification of New Therapeutic Targets against Hematopoietic Malignancies by Proteomic Analysis of (Pre)Leukemic Stem Cells
Meier-Abt, Fabienne | ETH Zurich (Ruedi Aebersold)
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Multiomics characterization of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in the BXD mouse genetic reference population
Benegiamo, Giorgia | EPF Lausanne (Johan Auwerx)
High Througput Personalized Treatment Screening for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Hirt, Christian | ETH Zurich (Gerald Schwank)
Towards a new personalized in-vivo MRI biomarker of myelin integrity and damage in MS patients
Fischi-Gomez, Elda | EPFL (Jean-Philippe Thiran)
Inferring individual chronotypes with transcriptomics for personalised chrononutrition
Phillips, Nicholas | EPFL (Felix Naef)
Novel data-based screening for hip fracture risk and patient specific treatment selection
Fleps, Ingmar | ETHZ (Navrag B. Singh)
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Technology Translation Projects
Microbiome Profiling as a Technology to Support Personalized Medicine
Sunagawa, Shinichi (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ
MedCo: Enabling the Secure and Privacy-Preserving Exploration of Distributed Clinical and *Omics Cohorts in the Swiss Personalized Health Network (jointly with SPHN)
Hubaux, Jean-Pierre (EPF Lausanne) | EPFL, CHUV, ETHZ, HUG, InselBE
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Nano-analytical Characterization of Calcifications for Personalized Medicine: a Mineralomics Approach?
Herrmann, Inge (EMPA St.Gallen) | EMPA, KSSG, USZ
Clip-free ocular proton therapy
Hrbacek, Jan (PSI Villigen) | PSI, POLIMI
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Deep Learning of Cell Morphology-Based Diagnosis of Sézary Syndrome
Claassen, Manfred (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, USZ
Treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency via CRISPR-associated base editors
Schwank, Gerald (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, KISPI
QA4IQI - Quality Assessment for Interoperable Quantitative CT-Imaging (jointly with SPHN)
Konukoglu, Ender (ETH Zurich) | ETHZ, USB, HES-SO, CHUV, InselBE, USZ
Spatially resolved, integrated lab-on-fiber fluorescence sensor for the monitoring of chronic and acute wounds
Rossi, Rene (EMPA St.Gallen) | EMPA, EPFL