{"id":12396,"date":"2017-05-11T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/swiss-genome-center-opens-in-geneva\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:39:38","slug":"swiss-genome-center-opens-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/swiss-genome-center-opens-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss genome center opens in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPFL<\/a>), the University of Geneva (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unige.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNIGE<\/a>) and Geneva University Hospitals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hug-ge.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUG<\/a>) have pooled their resources to create Switzerland\u2019s first ever genome center. Located on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusbiotech.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campus Biotech<\/a> in Geneva, the new platform aims to make gene sequencing more widely available and thus to promote personalized healthcare and precision medicine across Switzerland. It will provide its services to the university hospitals of Geneva, Lausanne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuv.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CHUV<\/a>) and Bern (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insel.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inselspital<\/a>), as well as to partner universities. The center is expected to employ up to 40 people.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.epfl.ch\/groups\/e\/ep\/epflmedia\/www\/20170510_GenomeCenter\/2017%2005%2010%20GenomeCenter_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swiss genome center<\/a> is part of the nationwide <a href=\"http:\/\/health-2030.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health 2030<\/a> initiative, designed to foster research, training and services in the field of digital and personalized health in Western Switzerland. The region has globally recognized expertise in genomics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campus Biotech as a global hub for genetics research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss genome center is not the only newcomer to Campus Biotech. The former Merck Serono site will also play host to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondation-bertarelli.org\/bertarelli-foundation-partners-with-epfl-for-gene-therapy-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bertarelli Foundation Gene Therapy Platform<\/a>, whose goals include coming up with viral vectors in the effort to develop drugs capable of acting directly on defective parts of DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to this national genomics hub, Switzerland will have greater DNA sequencing capacity than any other country in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[831],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swiss genome center opens in Geneva - 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