First MD-PhD degree awarded at the EPFL School of Life Sciences
After a four year immersion in the EPFl Lab. of Virology and Genetics, headed by Prof. Didier Trono, M.D. Sylvain Meylan successfully presented his thesis work on "Genomic Context and KRAB/KAP1-mediated Transcriptional Repression"...
Sylvain Meylan is the first EPFL "MD-PhD" holder, innovating the new joint UNIL-EPFL graduate program especially developped for medical doctors who intend to go on an academic career...This EPFL PhD program is also open to medical doctors from other Swiss universities.