Organization

 

Directorate

 
Markus Rudin
Founding Director / CEO
Giatgen Spinas
Co-Director / CEO

 

Managing Office

 
Jens Selige
Managing Director / COO
Karin Wettstein
Administration
Marc Lutz
Communications

 

Steering Committee

 
Beatrice Beck Schimmer (Chair)
Vice President Medicine Zurich
University of Zurich
Detlef Günther (Chair)
Vice President for Research
ETH Zurich
Matthias Baumgartner
Director Research Center for the Child
University Children’s Hospital Zurich

Gabriela Senti
Executive Director Research and Education
University Hospital Zurich

Jess Snedeker
Deputy Chair Orthopedics (Research) and Chief Scientific Officer
Balgrist University Hospital 

Susanne Walitza

Director Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich

 

Scientific Advisory Board

 

Ruedi Aebersold
Professor emeritus at the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Marcel Benoist Science Prize 2020

Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
Full professor and Medical Director, Department of Dermatology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany

 

George Hripsak
Internist, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, Director of Medical Informatics Services for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Campus, USA

Miriam Merad
Cancer Immunologist and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, US

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Psychiatrist and Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany

Caroline Robert
Head of the Dermatology Unit at Gustave Roussy and director of the Melanoma Research Unit at INSERM 981 Paris-Sud University

Nicholas Schork
Professor and Director of the Quantitative Medicine and Systems Biology Division at TGen, Phoenix, USA; Professor and Director of Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics at the University of California, San Diego, USA

Markus Schwaiger
Oncologist (nuclear medicine) and Founding Director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Technical University Munich, Germany

Matthias Tschöp
Neuroendocrinologist and Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany

 

A Powerful Network

From a legal perspective, The LOOP Zurich is a simple partnership (Einfache Gesellschaft), in which the participating institutions share rights, obligations, and costs. The six partner institutions have committed themselves to the following principles guiding the joint operation of The LOOP Zurich.

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