Governance and organization

President

• Mrs Simone de Montmollin, Member of the National Council.

Founding members

• Prof. Ron Appel, former SIB Executive Director;
• Prof. Amos Bairoch, Group Leader, SIB and University of Geneva;
• Dr Philipp Bucher, Group Leader, SIB and EPFL;
• Prof. Denis Hochstrasser, former Vice Rector, University of Geneva;
• Prof. C. Victor Jongeneel, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, USA;
• Prof. Manuel Peitsch, Honorary Professor, University of Basel.

Ex officio members

• Prof. Hugues Abriel, Vice Rector for Research, University of Bern;
• Prof. Cezmi A. Akdis, Director, Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF);
• Mr Thomas Baenninger, Chief Financial Officer, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR);
• Prof. Claudia Bagni, Vice Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Thomas Bieber, Director, Cardio-CARE AG;
• Prof. Edouard Bugnion, Vice President for Information Systems, EPFL;
• Prof. Emmanuele Carpanzano, Director, Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI);
• Prof. Carlo Catapano, Director, IOR Institute of Oncology Research;
• Prof. Andrea Cavallaro, Director, IDIAP;
• Prof. Estelle Doudet, Vice Rector "Research", University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Katharina Fromm, Vice Rector, University of Fribourg;
• Prof. Patrick Gagliardini, Vice Rector for Research at the Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI);
• Prof. Brigitte Galliot, Vice Rector, University of Geneva;
• Prof. Antoine Geissbühler, Head of eHealth and Telemedicine Division, Geneva University Hospital (HUG);
• Dr Vincent Peiris, Dean, School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD), HES-SO;
• Prof. Jean-Marc Piveteau, President, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW);
• Prof. Alexandre Reymond, Centre for Integrative Genomics (CIG), Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Davide F. Robbiani, Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB);
• Prof. Patrick Ruch, Head of Research, School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva), HES-SO;
• Prof. Gebhard Schertler, Division Head of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI);
• Prof. Falko Schlottig, Director, FHNW School of Life Sciences;
• Prof. Dirk Schübeler, Co-Director, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI);
• Prof. Torsten Schwede, Vice Rector of Research and Talent Promotion, University of Basel;
• Prof. Elisabeth Stark, Vice President Research, University of Zurich;
• Prof. Jürg Utzinger, Director, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH);
• Prof. Dr Christian Wolfrum, Vice President for Research, ETH Zurich.

Co-opted member

• Prof. Alfonso Valencia, Life Sciences Department Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain.

• Dr Jérôme Wojcik (Chairman), Industrial Data Scientist & Entrepreneur;
• Prof. Christophe Dessimoz, SIB Executive Director;
• PD Dr Katja Bärenfaller, Group Leader, SIB and Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF);
• Prof. Richard Neher, Head of Research Group, University of Basel;
• Dr Marie Owens Thomsen, SVP Sustainability & Chief Economist, IATA.

• Prof. Alfonso Valencia (Chairman), Life Sciences Department Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain;
• Prof. Søren Brunak, Founder of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;
• Prof. Melissa Haendel, Chief Research Informatics Officer and Marsico Chair of Data Science at University of Colorado, USA;
• Prof. Claudine Médigue, Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics Analyses for Genomics and Metabolism (LABGeM), Génoscope & CNRS, Evry, France
• Prof. Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Department of Pathology and Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;
• Prof. Christine Orengo, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, United Kingdom;
• Prof. Ron Shamir, Computational Genomics Group at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel.