Governance and organization

President

• Mrs Simone de Montmollin, National Councillor, President of the Science, Education and Culture Committee SECC.

Founding members

• Prof. Ron Appel, former SIB Executive Director;
• Prof. Amos Bairoch, Group Leader, SIB and University of Geneva;
• Dr Philipp Bucher, Associate Group Leader, SIB;
• Prof. Denis Hochstrasser, former Vice Rector, University of Geneva;
• Prof. C. Victor Jongeneel, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, USA;
• Prof. Manuel Peitsch, Honorary Professor, University of Basel.

Ex officio members

• Prof. Hugues Abriel, Vice Rector for Research, University of Bern;
• Mr Thomas Baenninger, Chief Financial Officer, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR);
• Prof. Francesco Bertoni, Deputy Director IOR;
• Prof. Enrica Bordignon, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva;
• Prof. Edouard Bugnion, Vice President for Information Systems, EPFL;
• Prof. Emmanuele Carpanzano, Director, Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI);
• Prof. Sébastien Castelltort, Vice-Rector, Research and Sustainability, University of Geneva;
• Prof. Andrea Cavallaro, Director, IDIAP;
• Prof. Estelle Doudet, Vice Rector "Research", University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Patrick Gagliardini, Vice Rector for Research at the Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI);
• Prof. Antoine Geissbühler, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva;
• Prof. Doron Merkler, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva;
• Dr Vincent Peiris, Dean, School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD), HES-SO;
• Prof. Bernard Ries, Vice-Rector International Relations, Digitalisation and Young Researchers, University of Fribourg;
• Prof. Davide F. Robbiani, Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB);
• Prof. Patrick Ruch, Head of Research, School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva), HES-SO;
• Prof. Nicolas Salamin, Director, Department of Computational Biology (DBC), University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Primo Schaer, Vice President for Research, University of Basel;
• Prof. Falko Schlottig, Director, FHNW School of Life Sciences;
• Prof. Dirk Schübeler, Co-Director, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI);
• Prof. Elisabeth Stark, Vice President Research, University of Zurich;
• Prof. Michel Steinmetz, Head a.i. PSI Center for Life Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI;
• Prof. Margot Thome Miazza, Vice-Dean, Research and Innovation, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Department of Immunobiology, University of Lausanne;
• Prof. Jürg Utzinger, Director, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH);
• Prof. Dr Christian Wolfrum, Vice President for Research, ETH Zurich.

Co-opted member

• Prof. Alfonso Valencia, Life Sciences Department Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain.

• Dr Jérôme Wojcik (Chairman), Industrial Data Scientist & Entrepreneur;
• Prof. Christophe Dessimoz, SIB Executive Director;
• PD Dr Katja Bärenfaller, Group Leader, SIB and Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF);
• Prof. Richard Neher, Group Leader, SIB and University of Basel;
• Mrs Maria Boulos-Richter, Independant Advisor.

• Prof. Alfonso Valencia (Chairman), Life Sciences Department Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain;
• Prof. Melissa Haendel, Director of Precision Health & Translational Informatics and Professor of Genetics at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, USA;
• Prof. Oliver Kohlbacher, Director of the Institute for Translational Bioinformatics, University Medical Center, Tübingen, Germany;
• Prof. Claudine Médigue, Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics Analyses for Genomics and Metabolism (LABGeM), Génoscope & CNRS, Evry, France
• Prof. Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Department of Pathology and Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;
• Prof. Christine Orengo, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, United Kingdom;
• Prof. Ron Shamir, Computational Genomics Group at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel.