A warm welcome to two new SV faculty members!

Jacques Fellay, M.D. (UNIL, 2002) is a medical scientist with expertise in infectious diseases and human genomics. From 2006 to 2010, he worked on human genomics of infection in David Goldstein’s Center for Human Genomics Variation, at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) before starting an SNF Professorship Award as a translational effort in research and clinical work jointly at the Global Health Institute of EPFL, and the University Hospital Lausanne CHUV, where he is visiting Physician at the Institute of Microbiology and the Service of Infectious Diseases. The mission of his laboratory is to contribute to a better understanding of inter-individual differences in response to viral infections, using a range of contemporary genomic tools. Approaches include genome-wide genotyping and association analysis, exome sequencing and transcriptomics.

Etienne Meylan, PhD (UNIL, 2006) and his research group will tackle the complexity of lung cancer development; preclinical mouse models of this disease will be used to interrogate the contribution of inflammatory pathways and glucose metabolism. The goal of this research is to be able to translate the discoveries into clinical development. His research group will be part of the ISREC Institute, one of the four research institutes homed at the EPFL School of Life Sciences.