The National Steering Board (NSB)
The National Steering Board (NSB) is the highest governing body of SPHN and 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 (SAMS).
The NSB includes representatives from key institutions in Switzerland (e.g. University Hospitals, Universities, ETH Domain, swissuniversities, Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), patient organizations). The integration of representatives from additional institutions (e.g. private hospitals, health insurances, industry) is foreseen in the future. The members of the NSB are appointed by SAMS.
The Committee of the NSB (Ausschuss) has the duty to prepare the meetings of the NSB and meets regularly to advance activities, process information, and enable more effective management of the SPHN as a whole.
Next NSB meetings
Thursday 17 February 2022
Thursday 12 May 2022
Thursday 22 September 2022
Thursday 17 November 2022
Members
Prof. Ron Appel
SIB
(UniGE)
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. Detlef Günther
ETH Zürich
Prof. Christian Leumann
swissuniversities
(UniBE)
Prof. Claudia Kuehni
SNSF
(UniBE)
Dr. Olivier Menzel
Patient Organization representative
(ProRaris)
Prof. Anita Rauch
SAMS
(UZH)
Prof. Gabriela Senti
Cluster ZH-BS
(UHZ)
Prof. Jürg Steiger
Cluster ZH-BS
(USB)
Prof. Manuel Pascual
Cluster GE-LS-BE
(CHUV)
Prof. Didier Trono
EPF Lausanne
Ex officio members
Dr. Katrin Crameri
Director of the Data Coordination Center
(SIB)
Victoria Sarraf
Federal Office of Public Health
(FOPH)
Dr. Thomas Geiger
Managing Director SPHN
(SAMS)
Dr. Benedikt Knüsel
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
(SERI)
Prof. Effy Vayena
Chairperson of the ELSI advisory group
(ETH Zürich)
Nicolas Rosat
Chairperson of the HIT-STAG
(CHUV)
Permanent guests
- Dr. Christine Currat, Swiss Biobanking Platform (SBP)
- Annette Magnin, Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO)
- Prof. Roger von Moos, 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+)
- Stephanie Wyss, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Former members
- 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)