Life Sciences Switzerland
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| Abbreviation | LS2 |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1969 |
| Type | Scientific society |
President | Françoise Gisou van der Goot |
| Affiliations | Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences |
| Website | www.ls2.ch |
Formerly called | Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB)[1] |
Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) is the Swiss federation of scientific societies for life sciences. It was formerly known as the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB).[1]
Life Sciences Switzerland is a member of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT).
Member societies
Its members are:[2]
- Swiss Society of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology (SSAHE)
- Swiss Society of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (SSMCB)[3] – fused with Life Sciences Switzerland in June 2015 and became its "Section of molecular and cellular biology".
- Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSPT)
- Swiss Society of Experimental Pharmacology (SSEP)
- Swiss Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSCPT)
- Swiss Society of Toxicology (SST)
- Swiss Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine (SGPM)
- Swiss Society of Physiology (SSP) – fused with Life Sciences Switzerland in June 2015 and became its "Section of physiology".
Affiliated societies
- Swiss Society of Microbiology (SGM)
- Swiss Society of Pathology (SSPath)
- Swiss Society of Plant Physiology (SGPf)
- Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association (SGV-SSEAL)
- Swiss Society of Proteomics (SPS) – fused with Life Sciences Switzerland in June 2015 and became its "Section of proteomics".
- Società Ticinese delle Scienze Biomediche e Chimiche (STSBC)
Annual meetings
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Notes and references
- ^ a b German: Union Schweizerischer Gesellschaften für experimentelle Biologie (USGEB), French: Union des sociétés suisses de biologie expérimentale (USSBE), English: Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USSEB).
- ^ Life Sciences Switzerland member societies, www.ls2.ch (page visited on 4 June 2013).
- ^ Fusion of the Swiss Society for Biochemistry (SSB) and the Swiss Society for Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics (ZMG) in 2013.
See also
- Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
- Science and technology in Switzerland
- Pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland
- Federation of European Biochemical Societies
- International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
