International Summer School 2025

International Summer School 2025

Wednesday, 2025/08/20 - Friday, 2025/08/22

Summer School

Event organizer: Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern
Date: 2025/08/20 - 2025/08/22
Time: 13:00 Time
Locality: Seminar room
Seehotel
Seestrasse 22
3806 Bönigen
Characteristics: not open to the public
chargeable

Wednesday, August 20  

Arrival by private car or train/bus 

Chair: Ali Jazaeri / Philippe JeanRichard:

  • 14.00 Welcome General Information (Georgia Konstantinidou, Thomas Kaufmann)
  • 14.10 Gonçalo Outeiro Pinho (PKI;Konstantinidou-lab)
  • 14.30 Simone Falco (PKI;Konstantinidou-lab)
  • 14.50 Greta Korsós (PKI;Bourquin-lab)
  • 15.10 Nikita Markov (PKI;Bourquin-lab)

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

Chair: Thomas Kaufmann:

  • 16.00 – 16.45 Dr. Karina Silina (ETH, Zurich) “50 shades of tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer”

16.45 – 19.00 Swim/Scientific exchange break

19.00 – 20.30 Dinner

Thursday, August 21  

08.00 – 08.45 Breakfast

Chair: Maciej Garczyk / Gonçalo Outeiro-Pinho:

  • 08.45 Jessica D’Agostino (PKI; von Gunten-lab)   
  • 09.05 Darien Toledo (PKI; von Gunten-lab)  
  • 09.25 Carlo Largiadèr (Laboratory medicine)  

09.45 – 10.15 Coffee Break

Chair: Maciej Garczyk / Gonçalo Outeiro-Pinho:

  • 10.15 Céline Guillaume (Laboratory medicine, Masoodi-lab) 
  • 10.35 Marcine Bessire (Laboratory medicine, Masoodi-lab) 
  • 10.55 Sabrina Cazzato(Precision Medicine, Hanno Würbel and Sabine-Henrich labs) 
  • 11.15 Vera Van der Velpen (Klinische Pharmakologie)  
  • 11.35 Trip information (Thomas Kaufmann)

12:00 Picking up Sandwich lunch (near the reception in the hotel lobby)

12.25 – 18.00 Trip / Free time

Chair: Georgia Konstantinidou:

  • 18.15 – 19.00 Prof. Etienne Meylan (CHUV, UNIL)Neutrophil alterations in lung cancer” 

19.00 – 20.30 Dinner  

20.45 – Picture taking

Chair: Thomas Kaufmann:

  • 21.00 – 22.30 Poster Session (Chair: Thomas Kaufmann)  
    • Liyang Wu (PKI; Kaufmann-lab)  
    • Marina Schläpfer (Laboratory medicine, Largiadèr - lab)  
    • Giselle Hevia Hernandez (PKI; von Gunten – lab)  
    • Maciej Garczyk (PKI;Konstantinidou-lab) 
    • Gonçalo Outeiro-Pinho (PKI;Konstantinidou-lab) 
    • Baris Budak (PKI; Kaufmann-lab) 
    • Alisa Schelbert (PKI; von Gunten – lab) 
    • Roxana Manaila (PKI; von Gunten – lab) 
    • Alex Katsaros (PKI; von Gunten – lab) 
    • Sara Buonomo (DBMR; Schaller -lab
    • Trung Dung Hoang (UDEM – Koch lab
    • Tim Fühlmann (UDEM – Koch lab)

Friday, August 22  

08.00 – 09.00 Breakfast 

Chair: Jessica D’Agostino / Darien Toledo:

  • 09.00 Alisa Ambrodji (Laboratory medicine, Largiadèr - lab)  
  • 09.20 Ali Jazaeri (PKI;Kaufmann-lab)  
  • 09.40 Philippe JeanRichard (PKI;Kaufmann-lab)

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

Chair: Jessica D’Agostino / Darien Toledo:

  • 10.30 Melanie Steinmann (DBMR, Eggel - lab 
  • 10.50 Poorya Amini (Founder & CEO Risklick) “Optimization of clinical trials” 
  • 11.30 Evaluation (Kaufmann, Konstantinidou)

12.15 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 Departure  

To access the registration form, please click on the image below or scan the QR code! Registration deadline 11.July 2025

Please note: The submitted registration form is not a guarantee for participation in the International Summer School. Only our e-mail confirmation, as well as the request for an abstract, definitely validates your participation.

Event Venue:

Seeehotel Bönigen,  Seestrasse 22, 3806 Bönigen

Arrival:

Seehotel Bönigen

PD Dr. Georgia Konstantinidou

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufamann

Institute of Pharmacology

Graduate School

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) 1.0 ETCS

Sponsoring and Co-operation:

Zentrum für Labormedizin, Inselspital, Bern

Sekretariat

Institute of Pharmcology, University of Bern
Inselspital, INO-F, CH-3010 Bern, Schweiz
Phone: +41-31-684-0900
E-mail: pki-sekretariat.pki@unibe.ch