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SUMMARY:From one century to another - lessons learned from the SSV launchi
 ng
DTSTART:20191113T171500
DTEND:20191113T181500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:William Pralong\nRegistration required : go.epfl.ch/pralong\n\
 nWilliam F. Pralong studied medicine in Geneva and obtained his doctorate 
 on the biophysics of transport systems in the peripheral nervous system at
  the Department of Pharmacology\, CMU\, University of Geneva (1981-1986\, 
 Prof. Ralf Straub). He then pursued a research career on diabetic neuropat
 hy\, and on the molecular physiology and signal transduction of insulin se
 cretion\, at the Institute of Clinical Biochemistry of the Department of I
 nternal Medicine UNIGe (Profs Albert Renold\, Class Wollheim and Francis W
 aldvogel). During his years of research as senior scientist\, he developed
  numerous academic and international collaborations (Queen Mary & Westfiel
 d College\, London (1 y exchange with Geneva)\, Paris VII\, Budapest\, Sie
 na\, Philadelphia\, UCSD\, and ETHZ) and with the industry. During this sa
 me period\, he also actively participated with UNIGe's Research Unit in Me
 dical Education in the reform of the bachelor-master curriculum in medicin
 e towards a problem-based education.\nIn 1996\, he was recruited by Prof. 
 Bernard Thorens\, co-founder with Patrick Aebischer of ModexTherapeutics\,
  to join the start-up for the development of an artificial pancreas in hum
 ans.\nIn 2000 he is called by Patrick Aebischer to accompany him at EPFL t
 o create a new curriculum in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Because of 
 ISREC arrival at EPFL and the creation of the Global Health Institute\, th
 e teaching programme had to be recomposed into a curriculum in Life Scienc
 es and Technology with two masters\, one more oriented in Life Sciences an
 d Technology\, and the other one in Bioengineering in collaboration with t
 he STI School. Appointed Adjunct Professor in 2004 he will be acting as Se
 ction Director for 10 years. In 2010 he was mandated by EPFL Direction and
  the Dean of FSV\, Didier Trono to setting up\, in collaboration with the 
 Universities of Lausanne and Geneva\, the first Passerelle-Médecine \, wh
 ich was successfully opened in 2011.\nWilliam-F. Pralong was actively invo
 lved in teaching (propaedeutic courses in Biology for SV and Introduction 
 to Biology for Chemistry + Scientific Police\, Biomaterials (MTX)\, Physio
 logy by Systems\, Artificial Organs and Systems\, Pharmacology and Pharmac
 okinetics\, and a SHS course\, Health A wit the CDH. He is still participa
 ting today to teaching at the HES-SO and at the “Sitem-Insel” – the 
 Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine in Bern.\nHe serv
 ed also the EPFL community by chairing the teaching commission of the CDH 
 (2008-2013). He was also active as a member of the CCE\, EPFL's best thesi
 s award committee\, the Innogrants Committee\, the PPUR Committee\, and th
 e EPFL HREC Ethics Committee. From 2008 to 2010\, he represented EPFL in B
 ern on the consultation committee for the drafting of the new Law on Human
  Research (LRH) and on the cantonal steering committee for the Harmos refo
 rm for education.\nIn September 2013 he was appointed to the EPFL Directio
 n as Delegate for EPFL Quality Assurance and Accreditation. Together with 
 Michel Jaccard\, he organized in 2014-2015 the quality audit of EPFL accor
 ding to the LAU\, and the accreditation of all its engineering programmes 
 by the Swiss OAQ and the French “Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur”
  (Cti). During his mandate he organized a close to complete cycle of EPFL 
 Schools and Colleges evaluations (except FSB). He has served EPFL in this 
 function until August of this year\, time of his retirement.\nCurrently he
  sits since 2015 and until 2023 at the Swiss Accreditation Council in Bern
  where he is also chairman of the sub-commission for the accreditation of 
 medical professions. He is an active member of the board of the Swiss Inst
 itute of Health Law in Neuchâtel (IDS). Finally\, since December 2018\, h
 e has taken over the Vice Presidency of the Cantonal Ethics Committee for 
 Human Research\, which brings together the cantons of Vaud\, Valais\, Frib
 ourg and Neuchâtel for clinical trials authorization and supervision.
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