The National Steering Board (NSB)
The National Steering Board (NSB) is the highest governing body of SPHN. It is responsible for the overall strategy, for maintaining regular contacts to the superordinate political authorities and for external communications in coordination with the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
The NSB includes representatives from key institutions in Switzerland (e.g. University Hospitals, Universities, ETH Domain, swissuniversities, Federal Office of Public Health, Swiss National Science Foundation and a patient organization. The members of the NSB are appointed by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
Members
Prof. Christophe Dessimoz
SIB
(SIB)
Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer
swissuniversities
Vice-Chairperson of the NSB
(UZH)
(UZH)
Dr. Stéphane Berthet
Campus Biotech
(UniGE)
Prof. Falko Schlottig
swissuniversities
(FHNW)
Prof. Urs Frey
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
Chairperson of the NSB
(UKBB)
(UKBB)
Prof. Antoine Geissbühler
Cluster GE-LS-BE
Chairperson of the NAB
(HUG)
(HUG)
Prof. Thomas Geiser
Cluster GE-LS-BE
(Inselspital)
Prof. Christian Wolfrum
ETH Zürich
Prof. Christian Leumann
swissuniversities
(UniBE)
Prof. Claudia Kuehni
SNSF
(UniBE)
Dr. Olivier Menzel
Patient Organization representative
(ProRaris)
Prof. Manuela Eicher
SAMS
(CHUV)
Prof. Gabriela Senti
Cluster ZH-BS
(UHZ)
Prof. Christiane Pauli-Magnus
Cluster ZH-BS
(USB)
Prof. Mauro Oddo
Cluster GE-LS-BE
(CHUV)
Prof. Didier Trono
EPF Lausanne
Ex officio members
Dr. Thomas Geiger
Managing Director SPHN
(SAMS)
Dr. Luca Tratschin
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
(SERI)
Dr. med. Susanne Driessen
Chairperson of the ELSI advisory group
(swissethics)
Solange Zoergiebel
Chairperson of the HIT-STAG
(CHUV)
Dr. Salome von Greyerz
Federal Office of Public Health
(FOPH)
Permanent guests
- Dr. Christine Currat, Swiss Biobanking Platform (SBP)
- Victoria Sarraf, Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO)
- Dr. Ulf Petrausch, Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK)
- Prof. Bernd Wollscheid, Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT)
- Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
- Dr. Stéphanie Wyss & Dr. Simona Berardi Vilei, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Former members
- Dr. Katrin Crameri, ex officio member as Director of SPHN DCC (SIB) (2019-2024)
- Prof. Anita Rauch, SAMS (2017-2023)
- Prof. Effy Vayena, ex officio member as Chairperson of the ELSIag (2017-2023)
- Prof. Detlef Günther, ETHZ (2017-2022)
- Prof. Jürg Steiger, Cluster BS-ZH (2020-2022)
- Annette Magnin, SCTO (2020-2022)
- Prof. Ron Appel, SIB (SIB/UniGE) (2016-2022)
- Prof. Roger von Moos, Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK)
- Dr. Benedikt Knüsel, SERI (2020-2022)
- Dr. Irene Knüsel, SNSF (2020-2022)
- Prof. Torsten Schwede, ex officio member as Chairperson of the NAB (UniBas) (2016-2021)
- Prof. Jean-Daniel Tissot, Cluster GE-LS-BE (CHUV) (2016-2021)
- Prof. Nouria Hernandez, swissuniversities (UNIL) (2016-2021)
- Prof. Matthias Gugger, Cluster GE-LS-BE (Inselspital) (2016-2020)
- Prof. Herbert Binggeli, swissuniversities (Bern University of Applied Sciences) (2016-2020)
- Prof. Hughes Abriel, SNSF (2018-2020)
- Prof. Mirjam Christ-Crain, Cluster Zurich-Basel (University Hospital Basel) (2017-2019)
- Prof. Denis Hochstrasser, Campus Biotech (University of Geneva) (2016-2019)
- Prof. Christoph Hock, swissuniversities (2016-2018)
- Prof. Peter Meier-Abt, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (2016-2019; NSB Chairperson [2016-2018], NSB Vice-Chairperson [2019])
- Prof. Christoph A. Meier, Cluster Zurich-Basel (University Hospital Basel) (2016)
- Prof. Arnaud Perrier, Cluster Geneva-Lausanne-Bern (University Hospital Geneva) (2016-2018)
- Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre, SNSF (2016-2018)
- Prof. Gregor Zünd, Cluster Zurich-Basel (University Hospital Zurich) (2016)