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Postdoctoral Fellow
Hervé loves watching or discussing films and learning about the history of cinema. He also likes to read, travel and visit all kinds of museums. He often watches football games (go Texans) and unsuccessfully tries to surf waves around San Diego.
University | Degree | Year | Field |
University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA | Postdoc | 2024-present | Microbiology, Vaccinology, Host-Pathogen Interactions |
Central European Institute of Technology, Brno Czech Republich | Internship | 2023 | Molecular Dynamic Simulations |
University of Bern, Bern Switzerland | Ph.D | 2022 | Cell Biology |
University of Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland | M.S. | 2016 | Molecular Life Sciences |
University of Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland | B.S. | 2014 | Biology |
Year | Honor/Award |
2024 | Postdoctoral researcher fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation |
2022 | Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation |
Besançon, H., Larpin, Y., Babiychuk, V. S., Köffel, R. & Babiychuk, E. B. Engineered Liposomes Protect Immortalized Immune Cells from Cytolysins Secreted by Group A and Group G Streptococci. Cells 11. 2022. PMID: 35011729
Besançon, H., Babiychuk, V., Larpin, Y., Köffel, R., Schittny, D., Brockhus, L., Hathaway, L. J., Sendi, P., Draeger, A. & Babiychuk, E. Tailored liposomal nanotraps for the treatment of Streptococcal infections. J Nanobiotechnology. 2021. PMID: 33588835
Larpin, Y., Besançon, H., Iacovache, M. I., Babiychuk, V. S., Babiychuk, E. B., Zuber, B., Draeger, A. & Köffel, R. Bacterial pore-forming toxin pneumolysin: Cell membrane structure and microvesicle shedding capacity determines differential survival of immune cell types. FASEB Journal. 2020. PMID: 3191467