1st MD-PhD SNF Grant at the DBE
Within their "National MD-PhD Programme", the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss National Science Foundation are funding the PhD project of Philippe Valmaggia at CIAN. His project is the first to be funded within the National MD-PhD scheme at the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
The National MD-PhD Programme aims to equip medical doctors interested in research with the skills necessary for a career as clinician and scientist. Valmaggia’s project will address the question of 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography for novel biomarkers. For his project he will work at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology under the supervision of Philippe Cattin and Hendrik Scholl.
Further information about the programme can be found on the websites of the Swiss National Science Foundation and of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.