Basel, Basel, Switzerland
I am an MD/PhD with a strong background in neurology, clinical trial coordination and data analysis. My passion is to learn about new concepts, to understand interactions in complex datasets and presenting these findings at all levels. My self-motivated, optimistic and communicative nature makes me a natural team-player.
In this function I switched from the collection of clinical date to the communication of these findings in marketing collaterals. The main tasks are: • Ensure scientific and regulatory alignment in all external communication, ensuring consistent and compliant messaging • Generate evidence-based marketing and training content to support sales and field marketing teams globally • Act as key interface to external clinical stakeholders and KOLs, gathering insights and fostering scientific partnerships
Here I was responsible for the Post-Market Clinical Follow-up for all extremity implants from Medartis. • Strategic lead for all PMCF activities across the extremity implant portfolio, aligning evidence generation with MDR requirements • Contribute to writing of Clinical Evaluation Reports • Identify and engage IIS partners, managing investigator relationships and driving research collaborations • Oversee clinical site engagement to ensure project execution and timely delivery of research milestones
• Managed an international clinical trial in sleep medicine, including operational oversight and regulatory documentation • Designed and validated protocols for multi-center research, with a strong focus on academia/industry partnerships • Performed statistical analysis in R and Matlab, ensuring high-quality outputs for publication • Mentored PhD, Master’s and post-doc researchers, promoting scientific rigor and team development
• Delivered outpatient specialist care in neuro-immunology, stroke, sleep, movement disorders, vertigo, and headache • Rotated as EEG consultant and study physician, bridging clinical care with research • Coordinated inpatient neurological care and ER consultations, working cross-functionally with interdisciplinary teams
The residency program at the REHAB in Basel focuses in particular on neurological rehabilitation of patients that suffered brain- or spinal cord lesions. In order to achieve the best possible outcome for these patients, an intensive training program is catered to the needs of each individual patient. • Provided longitudinal care to brain-injured, comatose, and paraplegic patients in an interdisciplinary setting • Led inter-professional care meetings to ensure alignment of rehabilitation goals and family communication
I demonstrated that addition of fingolimod (Gilenya) to cultured neurons increases their spontaneous activity, and results in a different firing pattern. Next I was able to detect the elusive pro-domain of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which was crucial to understand that it is probably coreleased with mature BDNF. Finally I have been trying to understand the localization of overexpressed neurotrophin receptors in ES cell derived neurons.
My main project was to express a genetically encoded calcium sensor in specific sensory neurons in a worm. This allowed us to study activation of these cells upon stimulation with different salt concentration. Second, I set up a method to detect transport vesicles in the extreme tip of the neurons. This tool has been used to show that certain mutants that we picked up in the lab affect which motor protein is loaded on the vesicles.