Speakers

Alexandre Reymond, Ph.D. Full Professor Center for Integrative Genomics University of Lausanne

Positions

• Alexandre Reymond carried out his thesis at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne in 1993.
• After completion of his postdoctoral training in the Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School in Boston, he moved to the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Milan in 1998 to lead a research group. He joined in 2000 the Department of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School.
• He moved to the Center for Integrative Genomics in October 2004 and was its Director from 2015 to 2022.
• He is a past President of the European Society of Human Genetics and Chair of its Scientific Program Committee.

Areas of special interest

• Human genomics and genome architecture
• Genetic medicine and molecular biology of cancer
• Genomic research leadership and international scientific programming