Charna Dibner

Awards

2023

  • Charna Dibner : ISREC Tandem grant for translational cancer research project co-led by a clinician and a scientist engaged in basic research.
  • Georgia Katsioudi : Prize from Fondation pour l'innovation sur le Cancer et la Biologie, (CHF 40’000) for the project “Molecular and functional interactions between the circadian clocks and mRNA degradation in pancreatic islet cells in the context of diabetes pathogenesis”.
  • Georgia Katsioudi : PhD thesis prize of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine (CHF 1’000), University of Lausanne.
  • Flore Sinturel : Swiss Life Foundation grant (CHF 20’000) for the project “Role of the liver oscillators in the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity in mouse models”.

2022

  • Volodymyr Petrenko : Prize of the Foundation Gertrude von Meissner for the project “Circadian timing of type 1 diabetes: repairing broken clocks to improve glucose homeostasis”.
  • Flore Sinturel : Alex F. Müller Clinical Physiopathology Prize.

2021

  • Flore Sinturel : Alex-F. Müller Clinical Physiopathology Prize for the work “Circadian Hepatocyte Clocks Keep Synchrony in the Absence of a Master Pacemaker in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus or other Extrahepatic Clocks”. ​

2020

  • Volodymyr Petrenko : Alex-F. Müller Clinical Physiopathology Prize for the work “The core clock transcription factor BMAL1 drives circadian β-cell proliferation during compensatory regeneration of the endocrine pancreas” published in Genes & Development.
  • Volodymyr Petrenko & Flore Sinturel : Young Independent Investigator of SGED/SSED for the work «In pancreatic islets from type 2 diabetes patients, the dampened circadian oscillators lead to reduced insulin and glucagon exocytosis".

2019

  • Charna Dibner & Flore Sinturel : European Biological Rhythm Society Travel grant to attend the EBRS 2019 meeting.
  • Charna Dibner & Flore Sinturel : Leenaards Prize for the translational research project.

2018

  • Flore Sinturel : Young Independent Investigator Research Grant (40’000 CHF) from the Swiss Society of Endocrinology and Diabetology for the project “Role of the liver oscillators in the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity in mouse models”.