Second education in Biology for talented medical students who are interested in scientific research. Trained MD-PhDs should be qualified to actively participate and shape interdisziplinary and transfacultary research projects.

Requirements:

1. Students can be provisionally admitted into the MD PhD program of Basel University at the master-study level (3^rd year).  Applications are evaluated by the Basel University MD PhD Selection Committee.  A formal evaluation of provisionally admitted students is being carried out during the final year of medical school (submission on Dec. 15^th of the respective year).
2. Students aiming to perform an MD PhD at Basel University should conduct an experimental Master thesis.
3. Students aiming to perform an MD PhD at Basel University are encouraged to visit a ”summer school“ or an equivalent research-oriented program during their medical studies.
4. Students aiming to perform an MD PhD at Basel University are encouraged to actively participate in a research program during their fifth year (“Wahlstudienjahr”).
5. Students that have passed the formal evaluation and have been admitted to the Basel University MD PhD Program are required to adhere to a predefined reporting system. The reporting system includes an early report to assure proper commencement (6 months into the program), followed by annual reports by the student signed off by the supervisor, and review of the annual report by a member of the MD PhD commission.

2024

Anna Sophia Beetschen, Molecular mechanisms of persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacterenia
Timo Schenker, Chimeric antigen receptor microglia for glioblastoma immunotherapy (funded by Monique Dornonville de la Cour Foundation)

2023

Jonas Fixemer, Transcriptional regulation of memory B cells in chronic viral infection

2022

Deniz Kaymak, Deciphering the role of ID1 in tumor-associated microglia in glioblastoma (funded by Swiss Cancer Research)
Lukas Kübler, Tumor reactive stroma in cholangiocellular carcinoma; mechanisms of induction and impact on response to chemotherapy

2021

Sarah Jungjus, SHP2 as a mediator of MAPK activation in myeloproliverative neoplasms: molecular mechnism and translational potential
Benedict Morin, Mechanisms of intracellular persistence of Staphylococcus aureus in human infection

2020

Dominic Schmid, Mechanisms of T Cell Dysfunction in Human Tumors (funded by Swiss Cancer Research)

2019

Mali Cristina Coray, Atypical chemokine receptors in multiple sclerosis – chemokine availability and clinical potential
Maurizio Cortada, Investigating mTOR function in the mammalian inner ear
Philip Schmassmann, Synergistic activation of microglia by targeting CD47 and Siglecs (funded by Swiss Cancer Research)

2018

Philippe Georg Dehio, Serine metabolism and T cell migration
Tanay Kaymak, Investigations on the role of IL-20 cytokine family members in eosinophilic esophagitis
Marie-Anne Meier, Molecular signature of extracellular vesicles in liver cancer: effects of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and response to Sorafenib (funded by Swiss Cancer Research)

2017

Benedikt Jonas Meyer, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and Basel University Hospital

2016

Lukas Enz, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and Basel University Hospital
Julie Jin, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and Basel University Hospital
Jordan Loeliger, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and Basel University Hospital
Jonas Lötscher, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and Basel University Hospital