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FMH Swiss Medical Association | FMH

The FMH is committed to ensuring that all patients in Switzerland have access to high-quality and financially viable medical services.

In the political decision-making process, the FMH advocates a balanced representation of its members' interests and promotes cooperation between the various players in the Swiss healthcare system.

Medical Genetics | SIWF

The Swiss Institute for Medical Postgraduate and Continuing Education (SIWF/ISMF) is the center of excellence for the medical profession, authorities and educational institutions in all aspects of further and continuing medical education in Switzerland.

As an autonomous body of the FMH, the SIWF brings together all the major players and organizations in this field, ensuring high-quality continuing education and training for physicians in over 120 specialties.

SGMG – Swiss Society of Medical Genetics

As a professional society, the Swiss Society of Medical Genetics plays a leading role in medical genetic and genomic patient care.

It aims to promote clinical genetics, genetic counseling and laboratory diagnostics in Switzerland and to further develop genetic and genomic medicine in practice.

Association for the Support of Children with Rare Diseases (kmsk.ch)

Rare disease diagnosis - a new way of living

Did you know that around 350,000 children and young people in Switzerland are affected by a rare disease? This brings great challenges for the affected families: parents who are at the edge of their strength, siblings who are short-changed, financial worries, and often isolation and struggles with insurance companies. In order to confidently accompany these families on their new path in life after the diagnosis "rare disease", the non-profit Association for the Support of Children with Rare Diseases (KMSK) was founded on 20.2.2014 by the entrepreneur Manuela Stier .

SAMW

Founded in 1943 as a research funding institution, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) acts nowadays as a bridge builder between science and society.

It is financially supported by the federal government and collaborates with private foundations.

SPHN - Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)

The Swiss Personalized Health Network is a national initiative under the leadership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).

In collaboration with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics it contributes to the development, implementation and validation of coordinated data infrastructures in order to make health-relevant data interoperable and shareable for research in Switzerland. 

Project page SwissGenVar - SPHN

A platform for clinical grade interpretation of genetic variants to foster personalized health care in Switzerland.

The SwissGenVar Platform aims at providing a national, joint, and curated database for constitutional variants coming from Swiss medical genetics centres.

CRPP Praeclare | UZH

Clarification of genetic variants for personalized prenatal and reproductive medicine.

The aim of this project is to improve reproductive genetic testing by further exploring the genetic landscape and variant pathogenicity of development disorders.

URPP ITINERARE | UZH

Innovative Therapies in Rare Diseases

The University Research Priority Program (URPP) ITINERARE fosters excellent translational research on rare diseases at the University of Zurich (UZH) and beyond. Furthermore, ITINERARE addresses the ethical, legal, social, and educational aspects associated with rare diseases.

Orphanet

The portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs

"Rare diseases are rare, but rare disease patients are numerous"

Clarification of paternity | Institute of Legal Medicine | UZH

The Institute of Medical Genetics does not perform paternity clarifications.

The Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Forensic Genetics, is in charge of this. Please visit the website of Institute of Legal Medicine.