Denis Hochstrasser

Pr Denis Hochstrasser is Vice-Rector/Vice President of Geneva University, in charge of the research and computer sciences sectors. He is also chairman of the Genetic & Laboratory Medicine Department of the Geneva University Hospital. He is as a Board certified physician in internal medicine & in clinical chemistry. At the academic level, he is full Professor both to Geneva’s Department of Human Protein Sciences, Medicine Faculty and to the School of Pharmacy, Sciences Faculty. He was one of the founders of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology and also of Biobank Swiss Foundation. He is a scientific founder of Geneva Proteomics Inc, Geneva Bioinformatics SA and of Eclosion SA. He is a board member of the CTI certification board for the Swiss Government and of Viollier laboratories. His research focus on the discovery of clinical biomarkers in brain, pancreas and kidney diseases, in human toxicology and the development of proteomic & clinical chemistry related technologies such as clinical mass spectrometry.