Organization
Directorate
Markus Rudin
Founding Director / CEO
Giatgen Spinas
Co-Direktor
Managing Office
Jens Selige
Managing Director / COO
Karin Wettstein
Administration
Marc Lutz
Communications
Steering Committee
Beatrice Beck Schimmer (Chair)
Vice President Medicine Zurich University of Zurich
Christian Wolfrum (Chair)
Vice President for Research ETH Zurich
Matthias Baumgartner
Director Research Center for the Child University Children’s Hospital Zurich
Gabriela Senti
Executive Director Research and Education University Hospital Zurich
Jess Snedeker
Deputy Chair Orthopedics (Research) and Chief Scientific Officer Balgrist University Hospital
Susanne Walitza
Director Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich
Scientific Advisory Board
Ruedi Aebersold
Professor emeritus at the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Marcel Benoist Science Prize 2020
Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
Full professor and Medical Director, Department of Dermatology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany
George Hripcsak
Internist, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, Director of Medical Informatics Services for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Campus, USA
Miriam Merad
Cancer Immunologist and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, US
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Psychiatrist and Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany
Caroline Robert
Head of the Dermatology Unit at Gustave Roussy and director of the Melanoma Research Unit at INSERM 981 Paris-Sud University
Nicholas Schork
Professor and Director of the Quantitative Medicine and Systems Biology Division at TGen, Phoenix, USA; Professor and Director of Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics at the University of California, San Diego, USA
Markus Schwaiger
Oncologist (nuclear medicine) and Founding Director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Technical University Munich, Germany
Matthias Tschöp
Neuroendocrinologist and Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany
A Powerful Network
From a legal perspective, The LOOP Zurich is a simple partnership (Einfache Gesellschaft), in which the participating institutions share rights, obligations, and costs. The six partner institutions have committed themselves to the following principles guiding the joint operation of The LOOP Zurich.
