To promote translational clinical research, three scholarships of CHF 200,000 each are awarded every year alternately by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation and the Fondation privée des HUG.

The purpose of these grants is to fund a project involving both a basic research group from the Faculty of medicine (CMU) and a clinical research group from Geneva University Hospitals (HUG).

Candidates must be affiliated with one of the two above mentioned institutions. For information and on-line submission: website of the Fondation des HUG

2023 Award winners:

1. Lampros Perogamvros: Augmentation of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy with Targeted Memory Reactivation for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
2. Christiane Eberhardt: Deep immune profiling of antigen-specific CD4 and CD8 T- cell responses after COVID-19 vaccination in anti-CD20 treated patients
3. Laure Pittet: Harnessing the beneficial non-specific effects of early measles vaccination in children

2021 Award winners:

1. Gürkan Kaya and Pedro Herrera: Senescent cells: A novel target for skin aging
2. Karl-Olof Lovblad and Giannina Rita Iannotti: Innovation of techniques for safe neurosurgery: quantitative functional brain mapping using Arterial Spin Labelling pre- and peri-operatively
3. Alessandro Casini and Marguerite Neerman-Arbez: Impact of genetic modifiers on the fibrin clot structure and the clinical phenotype of patients with hereditary dysfibrinogenemia

2019 Award winners:

1. David Legouis and Sophie de Seigneux-Matthey : Chronic kidney disease after acute kidney injury : human mechanisms of transition
2. Camilla Bellone and Marie Schaer: Understanding neural mechanisms of social attention processes in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

2017 Award winners:

1. Aurélien Lathuillère and Nicolas Mach : A novel versatile cellular platform dedicated to encapsulated cell therapy and its clinical application in cancer immunotherapy
2. Yasser Khazaal and Nathalie Ginovart: Neurofeedback for Cannabis Use Disorder: A pilot study on clinical effects and possible relationship with brain dopamine function
3. Natacha Turck and Patrice Lalive d’Epinay: Study of tear composition in multiple sclerosis patients

2015 Award winners:

1. Pascal Senn and Karl-Heinz Krause : Molecular targeting of inner ear pathologies
2. Frédéric Assal and Patrick Vuilleumier: Joint brain imaging and clinical markers of prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease

2013 Award winners:

1. Laurent Kaiser and Evgeny Zdobnov: High throughput hunting for virus associated with glioblastoma and acute meningoencephalitis
2. Jean-Paul Vallée and Sophie de Seigneux: MRI evaluation of fibrosis and inflammation in the kidney: validation of new tools in animal models and kidney allograft patients
3. Barbara Wildhaber, Département de pédiatrie, & Marisa Jaconi, Département de pathologie et immunologie : «Genetically-corrected hepatocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells to treat inborn metabolic liver diseases».

The Louis-Jeantet Foundation allocates funds to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva enabling it to retain or attract promising researchers.

The Foundation has thus financed several tenure track positions, whether in rehabilitation and geriatrics, neurosciences, cardiology or medical imaging.

Without this support – and in the absence of professorial positions in their field for several years to come – numerous scientists would not have been able to work at the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva.

Through internships in Geneva and abroad, this program aims to raise awareness of research among medical students, in internationally renowned laboratories. It has been funded by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation since its creation in 1999 and is considered a flagship program for early support for the next generation of academics.