A specialist in general internal medicine, Pauline Darbellay Farhoumand has a particular interest in health systems science. Thanks to the Tremplin grant, she will be able to publish the results of her NIGHTSHIFT project, a study of medical night work in hospitals. The aim of the study is to understand clinical and organisational practices outside working hours, and to measure their impact on the quality of care and well-being of physicians.

A paediatrician specialising in neonatology, Flavia Ferraro works on the development of the immune system in newborns, their response to infections and neonatal haematology. She is particularly interested in new biomarkers, derived from routine blood tests, which could improve the early detection of serious infections in newborns.

An industrial engineer and neuroscientist, Özge Yuzgec is working on pupil observation to detect brain states and the depth of sleep, a technology designed to monitor people undergoing anaesthesia. A member of Prof. Daniel Huber's laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine, this project is being carried out in collaboration with the HUG's Ophthalmology and Anaesthesiology Departments. The project began nine years ago, first with mice, then with healthy volunteers, and should in the near future be applied to patients.