Governance

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is the supreme body of the Foundation. It ensures that the Foundation’s goals are achieved and is committed to following the best practice in the philanthropic sector, based on the recommendations of the Swiss Foundation Code.

Bureau

Denis Duboule
President

Professor, EPFL and Collège de France

Gisou van der Goot
Secretary delegate of the scientific committee

Professor, EPFL

Bertrand Kiefer
Membre of the Bureau

Editor-in-chief, Revue Médicale Suisse

Members

Geneviève Almouzni

Research Director CNRS, Institut Curie

Elisabeth Bourqui

Delegated by the Presidency of the Swiss Bankers Association CEO & Founding Partner, BERG Capital Management

Chris Buyse

Director, Désiré Collen Stichting

Antoine de Rham

Delegated by Lombard Odier SA Bank

Marc Donath

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

Antoine Geissbühler

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

Michael N. Hall

Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel

Pierre Maudet

State Councillor, Department of Health and Mobility, Republic and Canton of Geneva

Jean-Pascal Porcherot

Delegated by Lombard Odier SA Bank Managing Partner, Lombard Odier SA Bank

Jean-Marc Strubin

Delegated by the Presidency of the Court of Justice of the Republic and Canton of Geneva

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

Former presidents of the Board of Trustees

Mr. Yves Oltramare :
October 1983 – September 1993
founding father and honorary president

Mr. Jean Zwahlen:
October 1993 – October 1999

Professor Bernard Fulpius:
October 1999 – December 2005

Mr. Jacques Rossier:
January 2006 – December 2008
February 2010 – December 2010

Mr. Charles Kleiber:
January 2009 – January 2010

Professor Jean-Louis Carpentier:
January 2011 – December 2018

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee of the Foundation is made up of leading personalities. These experts guarantee the scientific excellence of the projects which the Foundation finances.

Each year, the Scientific Committee acts as the jury to select the laureates of the Prizes of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation.

Bureau

Paul Nurse *
President

Delegate of the Medical Research Council (MRC), Great Britain Director, The Francis Crick Institute

Michael N. Hall *
Vice-president

Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel

Gisou van der Goot
Secretary delegate

Professor, EPFL

Members

Dario Alessi *

Delegate of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Professor, University of Dundee

Geneviève Almouzni

Research Director CNRS, Institut Curie

Marc Donath

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor, University of Cambridge

Michel Georges

Delegate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S/FNRS) in Bruxelles Professor, University of Liège

Stephen C. Harrison

Professor, Harvard University

Marc Lecuit

Delegate of the Institut Pasteur in Paris Research Director, Institut Pasteur

Diane Mathis

Professor, Harvard University

René Medema

Delegate of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) CSO, Princess Máxima Center, Utrecht

Peter Ratcliffe *

Professor, University of Oxford

Caetano Reis e Sousa *

Delegate of the Francis Crick Institute in London Professor, The Francis Crick Institute

Caroline Robert

Delegate of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), France Professor, Institut Gustave Roussy

Alexander Schier

Delegate of Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel

Erin Schuman *

Delegate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Markus Stoffel

Delegate of the Fonds National Suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS) Professor, ETHZ

Antoine Triller

Delegate of the Professors of the Collège de France responsible for teaching medicine and biology: Director of Research INSERM, IBENS

Juleen Zierath

Delegate of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm Professor, Karolinska Institutet and University of Copenhagen

* Louis-Jeantet Foundation’s Prize

Permanent Secretariat

The Permanent Secretariat keeps the Foundation running. The team is in charge, among other things, of relations with the different Foundation’s bodies; of the implementation of their directives; and of maintaining contacts with researchers and third parties. It is also responsible for organising the Foundation’s events and award ceremonies.

Elodie Van Hove

Secretary General

Costanza Panbianco

Scientific Associate

Aude Saudemont

Administrative and Event Assistant

Silvia Plüss

Accounting Manager

Nick Morrell

Financial Consultant

Jean-Claude Pizzacalla

Technical assistant (maintenance of buildings and equipment)

Finance Commission

The Finance Commission is appointed by the Board of Trustees to assist them in managing the Foundation’s assets and to advise them on investment matters.