Jacques Schrenzel MD

Jacques Schrenzel (1964) is a graduate of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After completing his internship and specialization in internal medicine (Professor F. Waldvogel, Geneva), he obtained the title of FMH specialist in internal medicine (1996). In parallel, he began a four-year specialization in infectious diseases (Professor D. Lew, Geneva) to study the cell biology of human phagocytes. In 1999, he was awarded the Pfizer Prize for Infectious Disease Research for his work on electron currents as an antimicrobial defense mechanism (Nature 1998; 392: 734-7).

Between 1997 and 2000, he completed a post-doctoral specialization in clinical microbiology at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) where he completed work in molecular microbiology and functional genomics. He obtained the title of FAMH specialist in clinical microbiology in 1999, and was awarded in 2000 by the Swiss National Research Fund a position of professor for his project entitled: "The genomic messengers of virulence and persistence: mRNA and protein profiles on Staphylococcus aureus biofilms during chronic experimental infection ".