Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber
Biological and related sciences, Health, Neuroscience
Health
Public health; cardiovascular epidemiology; genetic epidemiology of complex cardiovascular traits; arterial hypertension; chronic kidney disease.
Clinical cardiovascular research
Clinical Research Award of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, June 2012
Sanofi-Aventis Heart Prize 2007; Co-winner with Prof Michel Burnier
Best student of the Year 2005-2006 Award (Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology Division, Director, Dr RC Elston). Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. School of Medicine. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Tuition fee Scholarship, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2003 – 2006
Merit poster award: Bochud M, Bovet P, Elston RC, Schild L, Burnier M. "Heritability of office and ambulatory blood pressure in hypertensive families of East African descent". Poster presented at ISHIB (International Society of Hypertension in Blacks), Detroit, USA, 2004
English, French, German
Tsai DH, Riediker M, Wuerzner G, Maillard M, Marques-Vidal PM, Paccaud F, Vollenweider P, Burnier M, Bochud M.: Short-term increase in particulate matter blunts nocturnal blood pressure dipping and daytime urinary sodium excretion. In: Hypertension 2012 (in press)
Tsai DH, Amyai N, Marques-Vidal PM, Wang JL, Riediker M, Mooser V, Paccaud F, Waeber G, Vollenweider P, Bochud M.: Effects of particulate matter on inflammatory markers in the general adult population. In: Part Fibre Toxicol 2012, 9:24
Guessous I, Bochud M, Theler JM, Gaspoz JM, Pechère-Bertschi A.: 1999-2009 trends in prevalence, unawareness, treatment and control of hypertension in geneva, Switzerland. In: PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e39877.
Ellis JW, Chen MH, Foster MC, Liu CT, Larson MG, de Boer I, Köttgen A, Parsa A, Bochud M, Böger CA, Kao L, Fox CS, O'Seaghdha CM; on behalf of the CKDGen Consortium; the CARe Renal Consortium. Validated SNPs for eGFR and their associations with albuminuria. In: Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Apr 18
Lyngdoh T, Vuistiner P, Marques-Vidal P, Rousson V, Waeber G, Vollenweider P, Bochud M.: Serum uric acid and adiposity: deciphering causality using a bidirectional Mendelian randomization approach. In: PLoS One 2012 (in press)
Guessous I, Dobrinas M, Kutalik Z, Pruijm M, Ehret GB, Maillard M, Bergmann S, Beckmann J, Cusi D, Rizzi F, Cappuccio F, Cornuz J, Paccaud F, Mooser V, Gaspoz JM, Waeber G, Burnier M, Vollenweider P, Eat CB, Bochud M.: Caffeine intake, and CYP1A2 variants associated with high caffeine intake, protect non-smokers from hypertension. In: Hum Mol Genet 2012 Apr 16.
Pruijm M, Ponte B, Vollenweider P, Mooser V, Paccaud F, Waeber G, Marques-Vidal P, Burnier M, Bochud M.: Not all inflammatory markers are linked to kidney function--results from a population-based study. In: Am J Nephrol 2012;35(3):288-294
Marti F, Vollenweider P, Marques-Vidal PM, Mooser V, Waeber G, Paccaud F, Bochud M.: Hyperhomocysteinemia is independently associated with albuminuria in the population-based CoLaus study. In: BMC Public Health 2011, 11:733
Ehret G*, Munroe PB*, Rice KM*, Bochud M*, Johnson AD*, Chasman DJ*, Smith AV*, et al. (351 co-authors in total, * joint first authorship): Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. In: Nature 2011; 478(7367):103-9
Guessous I, Bonny O, Paccaud F, Mooser V, Waeber G, Vollenweider P, Bochud M.: Serum Calcium Levels Are Associated with Novel Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the Population-Based CoLaus Study. In: PLOS One 2011;6(4):e18865
PI SPUM grant (33CM30-124087/1) from the from the Swiss National Foundation for Science. Principal investigator of the project on the genetics of blood pressure and renal function. Co-investigators: Prof Fred Paccaud, Prof Michel Burnier, Dr Markus Mohaupt, Prof Pierre-Yves Martin, Dr Antoinette Péchère-Bertschi, Prof Olivier Devuyst, 2012 – 2014
Co-PI. Vitamin D in the CoLaus study. grant by the Federal Office of Public Health, 2010
Co-PI. Swiss survey of dietary salt intake. PI: Prof Michel Burnier, 2009 – 2010
PI FNRS ProDoc grant PDFMP3-127393/1. Revisiting the role of uric acid on cardiovascular risk using genetics and classical epidemiological approaches. Co-investigator: Dr Pascal Bovet, 2009 – 2011
PI SPUM grant (33CM30-124087/1) from the from the Swiss National Foundation for Science. Principal investigator of the project on the genetics of blood pressure and renal function. Co-investigators: Prof Fred Paccaud, Prof Michel Burnier, Prof Felix Frey, Prof Pierre-Yves Martin, Dr Antoinette Péchère-Bertschi, 2009 – 2011
European Project Ingenious HyperCare (FP 6). Member of the statistical committee. PI: Michel Burnier and Murielle Bochud for the Lausanne center, 2006 – 2009
PROSPER grant (3200BO-11362/1-2) from the Swiss National Foundation for Science. Gene-gene interactions for hypertension candidate genes in a Swiss population-based sample, 2006 – 2008
Swiss National Foundation for Science, since 2006
International Genetic Epidemiology Society
Swiss Federation of Physicians (FMH), Swiss Society of Hypertension (SSH).
ASMAC (Association Suisse des Médecins Assistants et Chefs de Clinique)
Seychelles Medical & Dental Association
European Society of Hypertension (ESH)
ESH working group on blood pressure measurements (2009 -)
Scientific journals: Asia-Pacific Journal of Cardiology; Atherosclerosis; BMC Medical Genetics; Epidemiology; Clinical Chemistry; European Heart Journal, Hypertension; Journal of Hypertension; Journal of Molecular Medicine; Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; Kidney International; Pharmacogenomics; PLOS One.
BMC Medical Genetics, 2009 – 2010
PLOS One, since 2010
Organization of journal clubs, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007 – 2008
Organization of a symposium on salt, Lausanne, October 15, 2008.
Global BPgen Steering Committee as a representant for the CoLaus study. Global BPgen focuses on the genetic determinants of blood pressure, since 2009
ICBP Steering Committee as a representant for the CoLaus study. ICBP focuses on the genetic determinants of blood pressure, since 2009
CKDGen Steering Committee as a representant for the CoLaus study. CKDGen focuses on the genetics of renal function, since 2009
CalciGen Steering Committee as for the CoLaus study. CalciGen focuses on the genetics of serum calcium, since 2011
DUMSC technical commission, CHUV, Lausanne, 2010-2012
Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Commission for the teaching of statistics, since 2010
Member of the SSPH+ Award Committee during the up-coming Swiss Public Health Conference, 25.-26. August 2011.
President of the research commission of the DUMSC, CHUV, Lausanne, 2011
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