Cardiovascular Physiology/Circulation

BIOGRAPHY

Hugues Abriel studied life sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ, 1989). He continued his education to become a physician (MD, 1994) and received a PhD degree in Physiology from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland (1995). He has spent two years as a research scientist at Columbia University in New York, USA. Hugues Abriel has been a group leader (2002-2009) at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Lausanne thanks to a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF-Professor). Since 2009, he is the Director of the Department of Clinical Research of the University of Bern at the Inselspital, and professor of pathophysiology. His research work focuses on the roles of ion channels in human diseases (channelopathies). Currently, he is mainly exploring the genetic, molecular and cellular bases of cardiac arrhythmias.