Organization

The Board

The Board is the supervising committee and its responsibilities include the approval of the strategy and budget of the FGCZ. The Board consists of the Vice President for Research of the ETH Zurich and the Vice President for Medicine and Sciences of the University of Zurich.

Vice President Research ETH Zurich

• Prof. Dr. Christian Wolfrum

Vice President Research University of Zurich

• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark

The FGCZ Steering Board

The Steering Board represents all existing and new FGCZ-related research areas, technologies and support modes. Duties of the Steering Board include:

• Prioritization of research areas considering available resources and community demand
• Definition of FGCZ support portfolio of methods, applications and technologies
• Strategic investment requests to ETH and UZH

FGCZ Steering Board members:

• Prof. Dr. Jacob Corn, ETH
• Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti, ETH
• Prof. Dr. Uwe Sauer, ETH
• Prof. Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus, UZH
• Prof. Dr. Michael Hottiger, UZH
• Prof. Dr. Mitchell Levesque, UZH

The FGCZ Management

The director is responsible for the operation of the FGCZ. Furthermore, he scientifically coordinates FGCZ activities with local and other research groups and is responsible for the management of the core platform and staff, the purchase of equipment, implementation of policies, and the organization of interactions between ETH and University of Zurich, with other academic institutions and industrial partners.

FGCZ Director:

• Prof. Dr. Ralph Schlapbach

FGCZ Unit Heads:

• Genomics: Catharine Aquino
• Genome Engineering (GEML): Dr. Zacharias Kontarakis
• Proteomics: Dr. Paolo Nanni
• Metabolomics: Dr. Alaa Othman
• Bioinformatics: Dr. Christian Panse, Dr. Hubert Rehrauer
• Data Integration: Dr. Can Türker
• Biophysics Coordination: Dr. Jens Sobek