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Stefan Dudli, PhD
Prof.

Stefan Dudli, PhD

Research Group Leader
Languages
German, English
Academic position Specialisation Honors and awards Academic career Grants Memberships Publications

Academic position

Research Group Leader

Specialisation

  • CRPS
  • Low back pain

Honors and awards

2024Best paper award, Kongress Preis der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie
2022Best paper award, ISSLS Annual Meeting 2022, Boston, MA, USA
2022Best paper award, ORS Annual Meeting 2022, Tampa, FL, USA
2019Travel Award, Annual Meeting European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)
20171st prize of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS prize) in basic research
2014Travel Award of the European Society of Biomechanics
2003Alfred Werner Legat (University of Zurich) for excellent performance in BSc

Academic career

2024Titular professorship at the University of Zurich
2023Habilitation in Experimental Rheuamtology at the University of Zurich
Since 2021Senior Researcher, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Balgrist University Hospital and University Hospital Zurich
2016–2021Postdoc, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Balgrist University Hospital and University Hospital Zurich
2013–2016SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ortopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco
2013Postdoc ETH Zurich, Institute for Biomechanics, Switzerland
2009–2013PhD: ETH Zurich and University of Bern, Institute for Biomechanics, Switzerland
2005–2007Master in Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2002–2005Bachelor in Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Grants

2024Swiss National Science Foundation BRIDGE Discovery, “iMODICel - Stemcell therapy for the treatment of low back pain”, function: PI
2024Swiss National Science Foudation SPARK, “Immune memory of intervertebral discs cells”, function: PI
2024Olga Mayenfisch Foundation, “Personalized Medicine for Low Back Pain: Identification and Characterization of Low Back Pain Phenotypes”, function: PI
2023Innosuisse, “Stemcells for the treatment of Modic changes”, function: PI
2023ISSLS Basic research grant – Bacteria-induced trained immunity in intervertebral disc cells, function: PI
2023Promedica Foundation & Balgrist Foundation, 5-year group head position “Spine Biology”
2023Vontobel Foundation, “imMODICel – Stem cell therapy for low bak pain”, function: PI
2023Gebauer Stiftung "The role of neutrophils in Modic changes in patients with chronic low back pain"
2022–2026Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) “Modic changes in low back pain: unraveling the vicious circle between the intervertebral disc degradome and bone marrow neutrophils”, function: PI
2021–2023Innovation Pool University Hospital Zurich. “imMODICel – Proof of Concept”, function: PI
2021–2024FOREUM – Foundation for Research in Rheumatology. Career grant. “The role of the intervertebral disc cartilage catabolites in Modic type 1 changes”, function: PI
2020–2022NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC). “Blood markers of pathophysiological chronic low back pain phenotypes”, function: sub-contracted PI
2019–2021Entrepreneur Fellowship in Bio-Tech & Med-Tech, University of Zurich, “Intervening on Low Back Pain Where It Hurts”, function: PI
2019–2021Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM): “Neurotrophism and angiogenesis in Modic type 1 changes”, function: PI
2018–2022Balgrist Foundation: “Ageing without an aching spine: Biomarkers and treatment of Modic type 1 Changes”, function: PI
2018–2022VELUX Foundation: “Ageing without an aching spine: Biomarkers to guide treatment of Modic Changes”, function: co-PI
2016–2020Baugarten Foundation, “The hematopoietic and pro-fibrotic effect of cartilage breakdown products”, function: co-PI
2013–2016SNFS, PostDoc.Mobility, “Pathobiology of Modic changes”, function: PI

Memberships

  • AOSpine
  • Eurospine
  • Swiss Society for Matrix Biology
  • International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS)
  • Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM)
  • Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
  • ORS Spine Section

Publications