Other competencies
- Diagnosis and treatment of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (stool transplant).
- Anti-infective therapies in immunocompromised patients.
- Tuberculosis
Career
| 2009 | Professor |
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| 2003 | Private lecturer |
| 2000 | Attending Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich (USZ) |
| 2000 | Specialist (FMH) Infectiology |
| 1997 | Specialist (FMH) Internal Medicine |
| 1996 – 1999 | Post-doctoral researcher and research associate Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF, USA |
| 1993 – 1995 | Resident in Internal Medicine/Infectiology, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) |
| 1991 – 1992 | Resident at the Medical Polyclinic, Inselspital Bern |
| 1988 – 1990 | Resident at the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern |
| 1987 | Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Bern |
| 1987 | State Examination Medicine University of Bern |
Most important memberships
- Swiss HIV Cohort Study
- Swiss Society of Infectiology, Board Member (SGINF)
- Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SGAIM)
- Association of Swiss Physicians (FMH)
Research focus
- New therapeutic approaches for curing HIV, in particular gene therapy approaches, bi-specific antibodies, immunomodulation.
- Molecular deciphering of the IFN signaling cascade with a focus on USP18.
- Genetically engineered macrophages for immunotherapy
Publications
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| since 2018 | Editor for the journal Medical Microbiology and Immunology |
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| since 2012 | Prize Commission of the Society of Infectiology, Chair since 2018. |
| since 2011 | Medication Commission, Medication Steering Group, USZ |
| since 2010 | Scientific Board of the conference “Challenge in Virology Seminar” Switzerland, Chair since 2017 |
| since 2009 | Editor for PlosOne magazine |
| since 2005 | Scientific Board of the conference “Day of clinical research, University Hospital of Zurich”. |
| 2004-2016 | Founder and Scientific Board member of the Swiss Workshop in Fundamental Virology |