Awards

2026

Loic Metz: Gilles Mentha Grant for the project "Synchronzing to Combat Dianetes: Circadian Dysregulation of Pro-inflammatory Metabolic Profile in Human Pancreatic Islets and Skeletal Muscle in Type 2 Diabetes".
Loic Metz: Gilles Mentha Lecture Prize for Basic Research for its prensentation during the Journée Gilles Mentha 2026.
Charna Dibner: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01 ChronoBridge PhD training network grant as part of a consortium led by Pr. Felix Naef (EPFL).
Charna Dibner: CA24151 Toward PERsonalized Cancer Chronotherapy (PERCC) EU Netwrok grant, for which Pr. Dibner is a co-coordinator
Georgia Katsioudi: The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation for the project "When Time Meets Decay: Uncovering the Links Between Circadian Rhythms and Pancreatic Health".
Charna Dibner: Research Council of Norway grant led by Pr. Simona Chera (University of Bergen, Norway). Pr. Dibner is a project collaborator.

Andrew Biancolin: Swiss Life Foundation grant for the project “Intestinal L-cell timekeepers: Roles in GLP-1 secretion”.
Charna Dibner: Vonotobel Fondation grant

Charna Dibner: FNS individual grant for 2024-2028 entitled "α- and β-cellular clocks: a network of functional outputs and their potential therapeutic applications for type 2 diabetes".
Charna Dibner: Teaching award for the best bachelor's examination in human medicine.
Georgia Katsioudi : Swiss Life Foundation grant for the project “Molecular and functional interactions between the circadian clocks and mRNA degradation in pancreatic islet cells in the context of diabetes pathogenesis”.

Charna Dibner: Tecahing award for the best bachelor's examination in human medicine
Charna Dibner : ISREC Tandem grant for translational cancer research for 2023-2026, a project entitled "Chronobiology of lung cancer: translation to diagnostics and chronotherapy", and co-led by Pr. Addeo (Oncology, HUG) and Dr. Karenovics (Thoracic Surgery, HUG).
Georgia Katsioudi : Prize from Fondation pour l'innovation sur le Cancer et la Biologie, 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, University of Lausanne
Flore Sinturel : Swiss Life Foundation grant for the project “Role of the liver oscillators in the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity in mouse models”.

Volodymyr Petrenko & Charna Dibner : 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 for the work “Circadian Hepatocyte Clocks Keep Synchrony in the Absence of a Master Pacemaker in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus or other Extrahepatic Clocks”.

Flore Sinturel: Maitre Assistant award
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: 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".

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

Flore Sinturel : Young Independent Investigator Research Grant 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”.