[FG] Bischoff-Ferrari Heike

Our group has a research focus on health span extension and healthy longevity.

For this, we have established several programs:

1)    Our team coordinates the DO-HEALTH trial cohort and DO-HEALTH-BioAge. DO-HEALTH is the largest European Healthy Longevity Intervention trial, trial cohort and biobank. Ongoing analyses focus on how the interventions tested in DO-HEALTH influence biological aging based on DNA methylation and proteomics. 

https://do-health.eu

2)    Our team coordinates the international research platform “Global Health Span Extension Consortium”. This consortium of 12 international University partners aim to join forces to advance the clinical applications of novel molecular biomarkers of aging including “organ-aging signatures” and epigenetic clocks as early medical diagnostics of organ aging, and as control of therapeutic interventions and health promotion.

https://healthspanextension.science

3)     Our team collaborates with the WHO and ProSenectute to advance the ICOPE program  and the concept of intrinsic capacity as a public health program for healthy longevity.

The ICOPE-Swiss pilot is ongoing in collaboration with Pro Senectute Canton Zurich.

https://pszh.ch/icope/

4)     Our team invented and coordinates the PrecisionAge Program, which is a digitally-supported personalized prevention program to extend healthy longevity. The digital tool is in development supported by the Sanitas Foundation and to be tested in a clinical trial starting in 2026.

5)    Dr. Maud Wiekzorec, PhD of our team leads the SNF Ambizione program RAISE-up advancing personalized fall risk detection and prevention. 

https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/216289

6)    Our team coordinates the SPHN driver program on frailty detection in acute care and in collaboration with the Geriatric and IT teams of all 5 University Hospitals in Switzerland “Swiss Frailty Network & Repository”.

https://sphn.ch/network/projects-old/driver-projects/project-page_sfnr/

7)    Our team invented the public health program “GRUVVE” during the COVID epidemic. The program combines coordination and mindfulness, and is continuously developed and accessible for all. www.GRUUVE.ch