Organization
Directorate
Managing Office
Steering Committee
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
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.