Bern Center for Precision Medicine

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The Center is dedicated to advancing precision medicine approaches by fostering the research and development of medical treatments and therapy methods. It provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers and clinicians from different departments and faculties. It is active in research, networking, and education.

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Profile

  • The Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) comprises a management board, a scientific review committee, and an operational office. Headed by Prof. Mark Rubin, the center currently counts 104 full members and 44 affiliate non-voting members, all from different institutes of the University of Bern.
  • The BCPM strengthens the national and international position of the University of Bern and the Inselspital in precision medicine.
  • The BCPM is active in research, education, networking, and outreach.
  • The Center offers an “Introduction to Precision Medicine” lecture series to Master students in Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Pharmacy covering 14 topics such as “Use of PM in cancer research and treatment”, “Gene Therapy”, “Organoids”, “Gender Medicine”, “Ethics and Data Privacy”.

External Partners

External partners of the BCPM include universities such as the ETH Zurich, cantonal hospitals, Swiss Medical Students' Association SWIMSA, and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.

Grants

The BCPM has awarded more than CHF 4.559 m for 34 precision medicine research projects, which then collected a total of CHF 18.645 m of external funding grants in return.