Twenty-two of us work in Lucens, and these five people lead the work.
The laboratory employs twenty-two people. The five people below lead its main areas of work and can be reached through the switchboard.
Dr Line Morel
Head of assaysDr Line Morel holds a doctorate in immunology from the University of Lausanne and joined the laboratory in 2019. She is responsible for the potency, viability and identity assays and for the validation of each method before it enters routine use.
Thomas Brunner
Quality managerThomas Brunner studied biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Wädenswil and worked in quality assurance at a pharmaceutical site in Visp before joining the laboratory. He leads the quality unit and is the contact for GLP inspections.
Dr Yasmine Achour
Research scientistDr Yasmine Achour holds a doctorate in cell biology from EPFL. She develops and compares methods for measuring cell viability and publishes the results at conferences in Switzerland and abroad.
Marc Jaquier
Head of sample custodyMarc Jaquier has worked in biobanking for fourteen years, first at a university hospital in the Lake Geneva region and since 2020 at Halcyon Biolabs. He is responsible for the receipt, storage and release of samples.