Boards & Mentors

Boards & Mentors are ambassadors of Wyss Zurich and its mission. 

Evaluation Board

(part of the Wyss Zurich Foundation)

The members of the Evaluation Board conduct a wholistic evaluation of projects during the application phase and throughout accepted projects’ lifetimes. 

Gery Colombo

Co-Chair

Myoung-Ok Kwon

Co-Chair

Patrick Amstutz

Wolfram Burgard

Dominik Escher

Carla Kriwet

Angus Muirhead

Paul Note

David Reger

Odile Rundquist

Gerd Scheller

Scientific Board

The members of the Scientific Board are comprised of members from the ETH and UZH and assess the scientific excellence of project proposals in the application process.

Nicole Lindenblatt

Markus G. Manz

Roland Martin

Brad Nelson

Robert Riener

Wendelin Stark

Klaas Stephan

Viola Vogel

Brigitte von Rechenberg

Faculty Mentors

Faculty Mentors are invited to join Wyss Zurich once a project from their research lab is accepted. They provide additional guidance and support to the corresponding project to bring therapies to the clinic or technologies to market.

Pierre-Alain Clavien

Apersys AG

Daniel Eberli

MUVON Therapeutics AG

Volkmar Falk

HYLOMORPH AG

Simon P. Hoerstrup

LifeMatrix Technologies AG

Marco Hutter

ANYbotics AG

Inge K. Hermann

Project Veltist

John Lygeros

Seervision AG

Martin Meuli

CUTISS AG

Dimos Poulikakos

HYLOMORPH AG

Janine Reichenbach

Somagenetix AG

Ernst Reichmann

CUTISS AG

Davide Scaramuzza

Zurich Eye

Michael Scharl

Adularia AG

Martin Schwab

NovaGo Therapeutics AG

Roland Siegwart

Tethys Robotics AG
William Taylor Versive

William Taylor

Project Versive

Mark Tibbitt

Apersys AG

Philipp Rudolf von Rohr

Apersys AG

Martin Wolf

OxyPrem AG

Entrepreneurs in Residence

The members of the Entrepreneur in Residence are available to support projects on various entrepreneurial topics throughout an accepted project’s lifetime.  

Robert Frigg

Natascha Schill

Hans Christoph Tanner

Friedrich von Bohlen