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Pascal Nicod, MD serves as Head of the Department of Medicine at the CHUV hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Mr Nicod founded Xigen S.A. in 2002 and serves as its Director. He is a trained physician who specialized in cardiology and previously held various medical positions at the UCSD Medical Center in San Diego. He served as Member of the scientific advisory board of Xigen S.A. His work has led to more than two hundred peer-reviewed publications and has received awards from Pfizer, Novartis, Roche, the Swiss Diabetes Association, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Cardiology and the American Physiological Society. He also heads a number of foundations such as the Bodnar Center for Clinical Research, dedicated to bridging the gap between physicians and basic sciences.