Admin and research management
Sandra Wittwer
Office manager
Stefan Reinhard
Service manager
Cornelia Mileto
Office manager
Project leaders
Inti Zlobec
Professor, colorectal cancer
Lead of Odyssey
Hannah Williams
Junior Group Leader, Multi-matrisomics
Amjad Khan
Research Associate
Bastian Dislich
Pathologist, upper GI
Heather Dawson
Pathologist, lower GI
Wiebke Solass
Pathologist, gyneco
Researchers
Philipp Kirchner
Senior research assistant
Kiarash Tajbakhsh
Postdoctoral researcher
Tereza Losmanova
Pathologist, lung
Martin Wartenberg
Pathologist, pancreas
Branislav Zagrapan
Pathologist, surgical
María Rodríguez Martínez
Adjunct researcher
PhD students
Philipp Zens
MD-PhD candidate
José F. Carreño Martínez
PhD candidate
Nina Baumgartner
PhD candidate
Jacob Hanimann
PhD candidate
Neus Vegas I Morales
PhD candidate
Javier García Baroja
PhD candidate
Sergio Vázquez M. de Oca
PhD candidate
Mohamed Mansour Faye
PhD candidate
Ekaterina Sedykh
PhD candidate
Letizia Spitti
PhD candidate
Master thesis students
Heritage Fatinikun (MSc candidate, Master of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Bern and University of Fribourg)
Aiden Fairman (MSc candidate, Master of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Bern and University of Fribourg)
PhD graduates
Mauro Gwerder (PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, September 2025)
Thesis: Unsupervised Assessment of Tumor Buds and their Micro-Environment using Multiplexed Immunofluorescence and Image Analysis Approaches in Rectal Cancer
Rina Mehmeti (PhD in Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland, June 2025)
Thesis: From Chromatin modification to cellular motility: Epigenetically repressed CDX2 promotes colorectal cancer cell migration and tumor budding
Elias Baumann (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, July 2025)
Thesis: Cellular Cartography: Nuclei Segmentation for Biomarker Discovery in Colorectal Cancer
Ana Leni Frei (PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, March 2025)
Thesis: Geometric deep learning and graph-based analysis to study the effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer
Christian Abbet (Doctoral Program in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Techniques, LTS5 – Signal Processing Laboratory 5 - EPFL, Switzerland, November 2023)
Thesis: Self-Supervised Learning for Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis in Computational Pathology: An Application to Colorectal Cancer
Amjad Khan (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland, November 2022)
Thesis: Computional Analysis of Corectal Caner Metastases in Lymph Nodes using Deep learning Technigues
Linda Studer (PhD in Computer Science, DIVA Research Group, University of Fribourg, iCoSyS, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland, January 2025)
Thesis: Deep Learning for Graph-based Representations of Histopathological Images
Alumni
2026
Florian Bäumlin, MSc thesis
David Fischer, MSc thesis, MSc in Medicine
Sophie Rohrer, MSc thesis, MSc in Biomedical Sciences, joined DBMR
2025
Dr. Mauro Gwerder, PhD Candidate, joined Office for Waste, Water, Energy and Air (Zurich)
Dr. Elias Baumann, PhD Candidate, joined kaiko
Dr. Rina Mehmeti, PhD Candidate, joined ITMP
Dr. Ana Leni Frei, PhD Candidate, joined Spotlight Medical
Dr. Cristina Graham Martínez, Research associate, joined BIOIB
Fammi Parokkaran, MSc thesis, MSc Comp. Bio. & Bioinformatics, joined Inselspital
Michael Jopiti, MSc thesis, MSc Comp. Bio. & Bioinformatics, joined DBMR
Léo Wütschert, MSc thesis, MSc Comp. Bio. & Bioinformatics
Synes Weber, MSc thesis, MSc in Medicine
2023
Atefeh Fakhari, MSc thesis, MSc in Computer Science
Chris Rüttimann, MSc of AI in Medicine
Meisam Asgari, MSc in Computer Science
Dr. Cansaran Saygili Demir, Postdoc, joined Lunaphore Technologies
Luca Noti, Medical Dissertation
2022
Dr. José A. Galván,Research scientist, joined Roche
Dr. Huu-Giao Nguyen, Postdoc, joined MedimapsGroup
Ibai Lertxundi Gomara, MSc thesis, Master Comp. Bio. & Bioinformatics, joined Nestlé
Laura Purcaro, MSc in Computer Science
Cédric Pieren, MSc in Medicine
Lize Dekkers, BSc in Biological Sciences
2021
Jannis Wallau, MSc in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park
Sven Wallau, MSc in Computer Science, joined Switzerland Innovation Park
2020
Tim Ogi, MSc in Bioinformatics, joined Medizininformatiker
Dr. Kristin Uth-Gottardi, PhD in Biomedical Sciences
2019
Shushan Toneyan, MSc in Computer Science
Julia Unternaehrer, Medical Dissertation
Micha Eichmann, MSc in Computer Science
2018
Dr. Stefan Zahnd, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2018