Profile
- Teaching students of medicine and biology
- Providing training in Medical Genetics (FMH and FAMH)
- Offering PhD training in programs of the Graduate Schools of the University of Bern
- Two research groups
- Identification of new disease genes for neurodevelopmental, mitochondrial and rare disorders
- Clinical and mutational characterization of neurodevelopmental, mitochondrial and rare disorders
- Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to functionally characterize disease mechanisms and to investigate genetic interactions
- iPSC and other cell-based models to investigate pathomechanisms
External Partners
University Hospitals Switzerland, Institute of Human Genetics, Erlangen, Germany; Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany; Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands; ORPHANET; ERN ITHACA; numerous collaborations with geneticists worldwide
Grants
- DFG ZW 184/6-1, 2019-2024 (Zweier)
- BCPM young investigator award, 2022-2023 (Gregor)
- Novartis Foundation for medical-biological Research, #22C194, 2023-2024 (Zweier)
- BCPM lighthouse project, PACE, 2024-2026 (Zweier)
