Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department provides an interdisciplinary service in the field of visceral surgery and medicine. In the context of highly specialized medicine, it primarily treats patients with tumors and other complex abdominal diseases.

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Profile

  • Visceral Surgery – Gastroenterology – Hepatology
  • Endoscopy Unit
  • Transplantation

External Partners

ETH Zurich, Systems Biology and Laboratory of Biological Engineering; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Surgery, Stockholm; University of Geneva, Molecular Biology; University of Neuchâtel, Department of Psychology; Baveno Cooperation (EASL Research Consortium); University Hospital of Bologna, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Freiburg, Germany; Crick Institute London, UK; Harvard Medical School; Institute of Immunology and Department of Pathology University of Cambridge; Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford; Department of Radiology, Jefferson University, USA; Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA; Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; SCCS (Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study); ELTR (European Liver Transplant Registry); STCS (Swiss Transplant Cohort Study); LITMUS Study, DILI Registry Study (Prospective European Drug-induced liver injury Registry); ERN Rare-Liver (European Reference Network – Rare liver diseases)

Grants

  • Fondation contre le cancer, Lausanne: Pancreas Tissue Characterization by Müller Matrix Polarimetry for use in Intraoperative Diagnostics (ID) (Prof. D. Candinas, CHF 210,000)
  • SF Board grant: Towards reducing infections after healthcare-associated interventions (Prof. G. Beldi, CHF 750,000)
  • Innosuisse – Suisse Innovation Agency: Caldre: Cholestasis and liver disease resolved (Dr. F. Baier/Prof. D. Stroka, CHF 517,000)
  • SNSF Starting Grant: Macrophage Aggregation Control against Scarring (MACScar) (Prof. J. Zindel, CHF 1,790,000)
  • SNSF: Development of functional secretory IgA responses (Prof. A. Macpherson, CHF 1,100,000)
  • Bridge – Discovery (Prof. A. Macpherson, CHF 1,561,346)
  • SNSF Sinergia: Understanding the role of immunometabolic imprinting for sustainable weight loss (Prof. Z. Al Nabhani CHF 1,261,612)
  • SNSF: Role of endothelial CCL22-CCR4 axis due to increased stiffness in chronic liver disease (Prof. A. Berzgotti, CHF 763,255)
  • Gilead: SPEARHEAD (Screening imPlEmentation and linkage to cARe inHEpAtitis Delta). (Prof. N. Semmo, Prof. A. Kremer, USZ, CHF 200,000)
  • Insel Gruppe Grant for Young Academics: Feasibility Analysis of Anti-Hexokinase 1 and Anti-Kelch-like 12 Peptide as Novel Antibodies in Primary Biliary Cholangitis. (Dr. M. Kolev, CHF 80,000)