Student Retreat 2024
Swiss-wide Cardiovascular Student Retreat 2024
Following the success of our first Cardiovascular Student Retreat in 2023, this year, we extended the Cardiovascular Student Retreat to additional Swiss universities and doctoral programs, with the aim of bringing together early career investigators in the field of cardiovascular research to foster exchanges and symbioses.
On November 29/30, 2024, a total of 35 students from five universities took part in our first Swiss-wide Cardiovascular Student Retreat in Ascona, Ticino. PhD and MD-PhD students presented their research in the form of flash and poster presentations, and Prof. Manuel Mayr, Professor of Cardiovascular Proteomics from Imperial College, London, UK, gave a stimulating keynote lecture. It was a fruitful and motivating meeting!
The best student presentations were chosen by the students themselves (audience prize). Congratulations to the winners: 1st Prize – Greta Scherler (Cardiovascular and Metabolism PhD Program of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne), 2nd Prize, shared by Azucena Rendon-Angel (Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Università della Svizzera Italiana) and Carla Lembke (Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern). Likewise, the best posters received an audience award. Congratulations to the winners (shared 1st Prize): Valeria Masciovecchio (Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC), University of Zurich) and Mehdi Ali Gadiri (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all organizing universities / doctoral programs, the University of Bern (PhD Specialization Program in Cardiovascular Research), University of Lausanne (Cardiovascular and Metabolism PhD Program of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM) and the University Hospital (CHUV)), Università della Svizzera italiana (Cardiovascular / Human Cardiovascular Sciences PhD Program), and University of Zurich (Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC)) for making this event happen.
In addition, we would like to express our gratitude to our sponsors for their generous support: FUJIFILM VisualSonics, Olink, and Novogene, as well as the University of Bern, for their financial support of the PhD Program in Cardiovascular Research in Bern (Förderprogramm “Doktoratsprogramme/Graduate Schools Universität Bern 2021-2024”). Last but not least – a big thank-you to all participating students who made this retreat an enjoyable and stimulating event!
