2014 - today
Research professorship, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB)

2005 – 2013
Research professorship for paediatric leukaemia (Gertrude von Meissner Foundation), Department of Biomedicine (DBM) & University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland

1999 – 2004
Head of the Clinical Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

1996 – 1999
Research Fellow in Experimental Haematology-Oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (Prof. D.G. Gilliland)

1993
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), University of Bern, Central Laboratory for Haematology (Prof. U. Nydegger)

1992 – 1996
Research Fellow in Haematology-Oncology, Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Research and Central Laboratory for Haematology, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. M. Fey, A. Tobler, R. Friis)

1992 – 1994
PIAF (Interfaculty Programme for the Education of Young Researchers), University of Bern (Prof. M. Baggiolini)

1991 – 1992
Fellow in Clinical Pathology, Institute of Clinical Pathology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Prof. J. Schneider, J. Briner, P.U. Heitz)

1991
Fellow in Transfusion Medicine, Central Laboratory for Haematology, University & Regional Blood Transfusion Service of the Red Cross, Bern, Switzerland (Prof. U. Nydegger)

1990
Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

• Lectures in Molecular Medicine & Experimental Cancer Research (PhD Programme, University of Basel)
• Lectures in haematology (Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel)
• "Learning on the project" (LAP): "Leukaemia and stem cells": Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel
• Theme day "GenMedicine"; "Science Month", Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

Magazines
JEM, JCI, Blood, Leukemia, Haematologica, Experimental Hematology, International Journal of Cancer, Leukemia & Lymphoma, Cancer Research, Oncogene, Cell Death & Differentiation, J Ped Hem Onc, Schweiz Med Wochenschrift, J Leukocyte Biology, J Clin Invest. Since 2012: Associate Editor for Haematologica

Research funding organisations
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Swiss Cancer League
Cancer UK; Kendall Leukaemia Research Fund; AICR London, Wellcome Trust
Belgian Cancer Society; VIB Leuven
Recherche sur cancer France

ASH
American Society of Hematology

EHA
European Hematology Association

2014
Scientific Committee of the Swiss Cancer League

2011
SWISS BRIDGE Award for cancer research

2011/2015
Research grant from ONCOSUISSE

2010 – 2015
Lecturer at the Paediatric Haematology-Oncology Courses of the European Haematology Association (EHA)

2010
Research grant from the Basel Cancer League (KLBB)

2010/2015
Research grant from the NOVARTIS Research Foundation

2010/2013
Research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2009
Research grant from ONCOSUISSE & KLBB (S. Rückert Foundation)

2008
Research grants from the Susy-Rückert Foundation, the Basel Cancer League (KLBB) & the Wilhelm Sander Foundation, Munich

2005
Research grants from the SNSF & ONCOSUISSE

2004
Lecturer at the 9th Annual Meeting of the European Haematology Association (EHA), Geneva, Switzerland

2003
Research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2002
Research grant from the NOVARTIS Research Foundation

2001/2002
Lecturer at the summer meetings of the European School of Oncology (ESO)
Research grant from the "Cancer & Solidarity" Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland

2001/2003
Research and development grants from Geneva University Hospital

2001
SIAKK/Pharmacia Prize for Applied Cancer Research

2000
Research grant from the Swiss Cancer League

1999
Research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

1998
Special Fellowship from the Leukaemia Society of America (LSA)

1997
Research grant from the Foundation for Biological and Medical Research, Switzerland

1996
Research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Certificate of the PIAF (Interfaculty Programme for the Education of Young Researchers), University of Bern, Switzerland