Visit of Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, at McGill University

Mr Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a delegation including 3 Ambassadors and 3 Consuls, visited McGill on October 30th, 2024, for a lunch at the Faculty Club. The goal of the meeting was to give to this delegation an overview of McGill and a description of the multi-disciplinary approach that McGill is using to develop and implement genomic medicine. Vincent Mooser, CERC Chairholder, was leading the McGill delegation, including Dominique Bérubé, Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation) and Anja Geitmann, Vice-Principal (Global Engagement). It became immediately apparent during the meeting that genomic medicine is a perfect topic for Diplomacy and Science, an area of high interest for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs.