Fifty Life Sciences and Technology Degrees awarded, and...

The EPFL School (Faculté) of Life Sciences held its Master Poster Session Friday October 8, followed, Saturday, by its Master Ceremony after the EPFL Journée Magistrale...

Last Friday poster session was an excellent opportunity to discuss the Master projects, getting useful feedback from the community and meeting our current students from the Propeadeutic to the Master, graduate students, Post docs and Professors.

Saturday October 9: for the third time since its creation, the School of Life Sciences delivered more than 50 Master degrees to young and enthousiastic engineers : 27 degrees in Life Sciences & Technology and 25 degrees in Bioengineering & Biotechnology. One of our Neuroscience PhD student, Chris Towne, was awarded the Prize of the "Fondation Dimitris N. Chorafas" for his thesis work entitled "Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Gene Delivery for the Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other Motor Neuro Disorders"....On this occasion, Prof. Yann Barrandon was designated, for the second time, as "favorite teacher" by the enrolled Life Sciences & Technology students and received the "Polysphères" Award. Our warm congratulations to all of them !