Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne
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| founding | 1890 (extension 2003) |
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Lausanne , Switzerland
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| dean | Béatrice Desvergne |
| Students | 1558 (medicine, WS 08/09) |
| Employee | 575 (at the clinics) |
| including professors | 115 (at the clinics) |
| Website | www.unil.ch/fbm |
The Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne (French: Faculté de biologie et de médecine, FBM) was created in 2003 by merging the Faculties of Medicine and Biology . The medical faculty was founded in 1890, the year the University of Lausanne opened . The name CHUV , which is used abbreviated in colloquial French, means in word form: Center hospitalier universitaire vaudois (University Hospital Center of the Canton of Vaud).
degrees
The following degrees can be obtained at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine:
Bachelors
- Bachelor of Science in Biology
- Bachelor in Medicine
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (first year of study at UNIL, continuation of studies at the University of Geneva )
Masters
- Master of Science in Behavior, Evolution and Conservation
- Master of Science in Genomics and Experimental Biology
- Master of Science in Medical Biology
- Master in Medicine
Diplomas
- Federal medical diploma
Masters of Advanced Studies (MAS)
Advanced degrees
- MAS in hospital pharmacy
further education
- MAS in Health at Work
- MAS in Economics and Political Science of Medicines (MASPEP)
- MAS in Health Economics and Management (MASHEM)
- MAS in Sports Technology and Administration (MSA) (The program is taught in English)
Doctorates
- Doctor in Life Sciences (PhD)
- Doctor in Medicine and Life Sciences (MD-PhD)
- Doctor in Medicine (MD)
- Doctor in Neuroscience (PhD)
- Doctor in Nursing Science (PhD)
Personalities
Simon-Auguste Tissot (1728–1797), Swiss physician and professor of medicine
Researchers and teachers
- François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss doctor, naturalist and founder of limnology , co-founder of the Rossi-Forel scale for classifying earthquakes
- Conrad Gessner , Swiss physician, naturalist and classical philologist, professor of the Greek language and physics at the Acedémie de Lausanne
- Corneille Heymans , Belgian pharmacologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1938)
- César Roux , Swiss surgeon, developer of the Roux-Y anastomosis named after him
- Simon-Auguste Tissot , Swiss doctor and professor of medicine at the Acedémie de Lausanne
- Ahmed Zewail , Egyptian chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1999)
- Rolf Zinkernagel , Swiss physician and experimental immunologist, Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine (1996)
students
- Louis Agassiz , Swiss-American zoologist, paleontologist, glaciologist and geologist
- Hans Fischer , German chemist and physician, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1930)
- Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1949)
- Walther Kuhn , Professor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen
- Saul Chernichovsky , Hebrew poet and translator
- Pascoal Mocumbi , Mozambican doctor and politician, former Health, Foreign Trade and Prime Minister in Mozambique
- Alexandre Yersin , Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist, discoverer of the plague pathogen, Yersinia pestis