Admin and research management

Sandra Wittwer

Office manager

Stefan Reinhard

Service manager

Cornelia Mileto

Office manager

Project leaders

Inti Zlobec

Professor, colorectal cancer
Lead of Odyssey

Hannah Williams

Junior Group Leader, Tumour ecotyping

Bastian Dislich

Pathologist, upper GI

Heather Dawson

Pathologist, lower GI

Wiebke Solass

Pathologist, gyneco

Researchers

Philipp Kirchner

Senior research assistant

Amjad Khan

Postdoc

Aart Mookhoek

Pathologist, IBD

Tereza Losmanova

Pathologist, lung

Martin Wartenberg

Pathologist, pancreas

Branislav Zagrapan

Pathologist, surgical

Cristina Graham Martínez

Research associate

María Rodríguez Martínez

Adjunct researcher

PhD students

Philipp Zens

MD-PhD candidate

Elias Baumann

PhD candidate

Ana Leni Frei

PhD candidate

Rina Mehmeti

MD-PhD candidate

Mauro Gwerder

PhD candidate

José Francisco Carreño Martínez

PhD candidate

Jacob Hanimann

PhD candidate

Javier Garcia Baroja

PhD candidate

Sergio Vázquez Montes de Oca

PhD candidate

Master thesis students

Mohamed Mansour Faye (MSc candidate, Master of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Bern and University of Fribourg)

Javier García Baroja (MSc candidate, Master of Biomedical Engineering, Bioimaging, ETH Zurich)

Kartik Kohli (MSc candidate, Master of Computer Science)

Joël Baumann (MMed candidate Master of Medicine)

Joël Schlegel (MMed candidate Master of Medicine)

PhD graduates

Amjad Khan (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, November 2022)

Thesis: Computional Analysis of Corectal Caner Metastases in Lymph Nodes using Deep learning Technigues

Christian Abbet (Doctoral Program in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Techniques, LTS5 – Signal Processing Laboratory 5 - EPFL, Switzerland, November 2023)

Thesis: Self-Supervised Learning for Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis in Computational Pathology: An Application to Colorectal Cancer

Linda Studer (PhD in Computer Science, DIVA Research Group, University of Fribourg, iCoSyS, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland, January 2025)

Thesis: Deep Learning for Graph-based Representations of Histopathological Images

Alumni

Atefeh Fakhari (MSc candidate, Master of Computer Science, 2023)

Chris Rüttimann, Master of AI in Medicine, 2023

Meisam Asgari, Master of Computer Science, 2023

Dr. Cansaran Saygili Demir, Postdoc, joined Lunaphore Technologies, 2023

Luca Noti, Medical Dissertation, 2023

Dr. Huu-Giao Nguyen, Postdoc, joined Medimaps Group, 2022

Dr. José A. Galván, Research scientist, joined Roche, 2022

Ibai Lertxundi Gomara, Master thesis student, joined Nestlé, 2022

Laura Purcaro, Master in Computer Science, 2022

Cédric Pieren, Master of Medicine, 2022

Lize Dekkers, Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, 2022

Jannis Wallau, Master in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park, 2021

Sven Wallau, Master in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park, 2021

Tim Ogi, Master in Bioinformatics, joined Medizininformatiker, 2020

Dr. Kristin Uth-Gottardi, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2020

Shushan Toneyan, Master in Computer Science, 2019

Julia Unternaehrer, Medical Dissertation, 2019

Micha Eichmann, Master in Computer Science, 2019

Dr. Stefan Zahnd, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2018