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On Friday, November 24th, 2023, Liza successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Robust Causal Inference Methods to Assess Risk Factors for Common Diseases”, marking a significant academic milestone. In her work, …
Liza became a PhD graduate Read MoreThis year in Vienna – Austria, the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference from the 11th to the 14th of June where Sven Erik Ojavee was …
Sven is awarded the Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award at ESHG 2022 Read MoreThe European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference on the 28-31 August 2021 virtually across the world. Chiara Auwerx received the Young Investigator Award for the best talk in complex disease …
Chiara receives prestigious Young Investigator Award of ESHG 2021 Read MoreThe European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference 6-9 June 2020 (ESHG 2020.2 – Live in Your Living Room). Liza Darrous received the Young Investigator Award for the …
Liza receives the Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award (ESHG 2020) Read MoreThe European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference 16-19 June 2018 in Milan, Italy. Eleonora Porcu received the Young Investigator Award for the best talk in statistical genetics …
Eleonora receives prestigious Young Investigator Award of ESHG Read MoreAfter 5 years on tenure track, on 1 April 2018, Zoltan has been appointed as associate professor of the University of Lausanne.
Zoltan became associate professor Read MoreThe answer to how long each of us will live is partly encoded in our genome. We have identified 16 genetic markers associated with a decreased lifespan, including 14 new …
Bayesian GWAS: Lifespan Read MoreSina Rüeger and Aaron McDaid won the poster prize at the Functional Annotation of Genome-wide variants Workshop held 14-15 March in Lausanne. Their poster was entitled “Improved summary statistics imputation …
Sina & Aaron win poster prize of the Functional Annotation Workshop Read MoreOur group contributed to a large international study published on 1 February in Nature, where over 300 scientists from across the globe have combined their effort to study in more than …
Rare variants alter human height by up to 2cm Read MoreThe European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference 21-24 May 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Sina Rüeger (PhD student) received the Young Investigator Award for the best talk in statistical …
Sina Rüeger receives Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award Read More