News and Activities
2021
and older
Congratulations to our PI Prof. Elena Osto for being appointed Board Reviewer for EHJ!
Find out more here
It was an honour to have the opportunity to host Prof. Dr. Jared Rutter at one of the Life Science Switzerland (LS2) Prestige Webinars. Thank you and congratulations for the nice talk!
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Starting the New Year with a great news that our leader Dr. Elena Osto officialy became a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor! Congratulation!!!
If you are interested in knowing our PI, you can find out more information here.
2020
Congrats to Dr. Anita Nasrallah for receiving a the Swiss Life Research Grant!
Masters Student Ilayda Sazpinar is volunteering for the national COVID-19 relief effort, a big thank-you to her and all of our medical staff!!
Dr. Elena Osto was recently featured in Tages Anzeiger for her work in Zürich. Read all about it here.
2019
Congrats to Anne Jomard for winning the Aletta Jacobs Young Investigator Award for Female Researchers at the German society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology!
Greetings from the 42nd European Lipoprotein Club in Tutzing, Germany. Dr. Elena Osto is with our friends and close collaborators Oscar Chàvez, Anne Tailleux and Bart Staels from Institut Pasteur Lille and Université of Lille, France.
Congrats to Dr. Elena Osto for recently having been elected onto the steering committee of ZIHP! More details here and here.
Congrats to PhD Student Anne for winning the Hartmann-Müller Travel Grant 2019!
Congrats to Anne Jomard for Receiving the Life Science Switzerland Travel Grant! Read more about it here.
PD. Dr. med. Elena Osto’s interview by the Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology here.
International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy 2019 Conference, Lugano, Switzerland:
The Osto Team with Prof. Augusto Gallino, who organised the ISCP2019 Conference.
Best Poster Award (2nd Place) for Anne Jomard’s project on Bile Acids as novel pharmaco-therapeutic agents!
LS2 Cardiovascular Biology Meeting 2019 Fribourg, Switzerland
Best Oral Presentation Award
2018
ZHIP Symposium 2018 Zurich, Switzerland: 1st Place Best Poster Award to Anne Jomard!
Cardiology Sommerfest 2018 attended by the lab & colleagues
LS2 Cardiovascular Biology Meeting 2018 Fribourg, Switzerland
FCVB 2018 Vienna, Austria
Best Photo Award
The Osto Group with our international colleague: Maria Jose Forteza, PhD
Assistant professor
Cardiovascular Medicine,
Dep of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet
We are a newly-established, collaborative, driven research group based at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry (USZ, link here). While our research is focused on basic science, we are strongly geared towards a translational outcome, working from cell and animal models to human patient studies.