AMI-CH opens doors.

Three tracks

A year of mentorship, built around you.

Cycle 1 · February 2027 to February 2028

Five steps over twelve months. Your mentor is an honest sounding board for your next step, in industry, entrepreneurship or academia.

1. Cycle starts. Late February 2027. You meet your mentor and agree on one page what you want from the year. What you discuss stays between you.
2. Personal 1:1s. About once a month: twelve meetings across the year, in person or online. A mid-term review at month six checks that the goals still fit.
3. AMI-CH summit. 15 March 2027. Working theme: “Better models, better medicines: when will patients feel the difference?” Attendance is optional. A place is held for every pair.
4. Cohort events. In planning: skills workshops and a company visit in Basel, together with the other mentees.
5. Final session. February 2028. Each pair looks back, gives feedback and passes on what they learned.

How a pair works: The mentee sets the agenda.

One mentee, one mentor, twelve months. What each side can expect, and the few rules that apply to everyone.

• The mentee. Owns the relationship. Proposes dates, sets the agenda, formulates the goals, prepares and follows up.
• The mentor. Listens, challenges, shares experience and opens doors where it is natural to do so. A sounding board, not a decision-maker. Taking the initiative is welcome, it is simply not expected.
• AMI-CH. Matches the pair, sends out the guidelines, organises the events, checks in at mid-term and at the end, and is the point of contact if anything goes wrong.

What it is not

• A job interview, and not necessarily a route to a position at the mentor’s organisation, even though one may grow out of it.
• Scientific supervision, or a second doctoral supervisor.
• A guarantee of introductions, referrals or internships.

The rules that apply to everyone

• Confidential. Everything stays between the pair, nothing goes to supervisors, employers or AMI-CH.
• No dependency. A mentor is never the mentee’s supervisor, thesis committee member, line manager or group colleague.
• No-fault exit. Tell us early and we rematch, rather than let a pair quietly stop meeting.

Applications: From call to first meeting.

Open to doctoral researchers at the Biozentrum and the Pharmazentrum, University of Basel. AMI-CH draws up a shortlist, and each mentor then chooses their mentee from it.

Questions? Contact us.