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Dr Marina Bellavia has graduated from medical school at the University of Rome (Italy) « La Sapienza » in 2002. She presently continues her specialist training in gynaecology and obstetrics. With the benefit of a scholarship and in the light of interfaculty collaboration between both universities, Bari and Lausanne, she joined UMR from November 2005 to October 2006. She interferes in routine clinical activities. Dr. Bellavia was promoted assistant from January 2007 and will replace Dr. Ventura during her maternity leave.

Dr Primi has studied biology at the Université Paul Sabathier in Toulouse (France). She obtained her doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse back in 1986. Prizewinner from the Fondation de l’Industrie Pharmaceutique pour la Recherche, she obtained a 1-year tuition scholarship in London. While she was at it, she was offered the post of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London Hospital Medical College for two more years. In Switzerland since 1989, she first occupied a 2 years biologist post within the Gastro-enterology unit of CHUV followed by a 5 years first assistant post at the Faculté de Médecine de Lausanne. From 1997 onwards, she works at the Andrology Laboratory and Reproduction Biology at CHUV whilst until August 2005, she shared her time with the laboratory of the CPMA (Clinic Cecil).