Direction:General Surgery
Position:Full Professor
Dr. Berney graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (MSc degree) in 1981, and from the University of Geneva School of Medicine in 1987. He specialized in General and Visceral Surgery in Switzerland and in Transplantation Surgery in Brussels, Belgium and Miami, Florida. He has been the head of the Cell Isolation and Transplantation Center/director of the Islet and Pancreas Transplant Programs at the University of Geneva Hospitals from 2002-2022. He has been a Professor of Surgery at the University of Geneva School of Medicine from 2007-2022. From 2015-2022, he served as chief of the Division of Transplantation, a leading center for liver, pancreas, islet, kidney and intestinal transplantation.
He is a member of several surgical and transplantation societies. In 2007, he became the founding chairman of the European Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (EPITA) until 2013. He served as President of the Swiss Transplantation Society (2014-2016), the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT, 2015-2017) and the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA, 2017-2019). He is the recipient of several research grants and awards and the author or co-author of over 350 articles and book chapters. He has sat on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Transplant International since March 2021
Scientific interests / research interests
Clinical and experimental islet transplantation, islet cell biology, islet graft imaging, anti-inflammatory strategies to improve islet engraftment and pancreas bioengineering
- Featured publications (selected from >350)
Berney T, Fulpius T, Shibata T, Reininger L, Van Snick J, Shan H, Weigert M, Marshak-Rothstein A, Izui S. Selective pathogenicity of murine rheumatoid factors of the cryoprecipitable IgG3 subclass. Int Immunol 1992; 4: 93-99.
Berney T, Mentha G, Roth AD, Morel P. Results of surgical resection of liver metastases from non colorectal primaries. Br J Surg 1998; 85 : 1423-1438.
Berney T, Gasche Y, Robert J, Jenny A, Vermeulen B, Mensi N, Grau G, Morel P. Serum profiles of interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and interleukin-10 in patients with severe and mild acute mancreatitis. Pancreas 1999; 18: 371-377.
Berney T, Molano RD, Cattan P, Pileggi A, Vizzardelli C, Ricordi C, Inverardi L. Endotoxin-mediated delayed islet graft function is associated with increased intra-islet cytokine production and islet cell apoptosis. Transplantation 2001; 71: 125-132.
Berney T, Pileggi A, Molano RD, Poggioli R, Zahr E, Ricordi C, Inverardi L. The effect of simultaneous CD154 and LFA-1 blockade on the survival of allogeneic islet grafts in nonobese diabetic mice. Transplantation 2003; 76: 1669-1674.
Bucher P, Mathe Z, Morel P, Bosco D, Andres A, Kurfuerst M, Friedrich O, Raemsch-Guenther N, Buhler LH, Berney T. Assessment of a novel two-component enzyme preparation for human islet isolation and transplantation. Transplantation 2005; 79: 91-97.
Shapiro J, Ricordi C, Hering B, Auchincloss H, Lindblad R, Robertson P, Secchi A, Brendel M, Berney T, Brennan D, Cagliero E, Alejandro R, Ryan E, DiMercurio B, Morel Ph, Polonsky K, Reems J, Bretzel R, Bertuzzi F, Froud T, Kandaswamy R, Sutherland D, Eisenbarth G, Segal F, Preiksaitis J, Korbutt G, Barton F, Viviano L, Seyfert-Margolis V, Bluestone J, Lackey J.
International Multicenter trial of islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes. N Engl J Med.2006; 355:1318-1330
Toso C, Baertschiger R, Morel Ph, Bosco D, Armanet M, Wojtusciszyn A, Badet L, Philippe J, Becker C.-D, Hadaya K, Majno P, Buhler L, Berney T, and the GRAGIL group. Sequential Kidney/islet Transplantation: Efficacy and Safety Assessment of a Steroid-Free Immunosuppression Protocol. Am J Transplant 2006; 6: 1049-1058.
Toso C, Vallée JP, Morel P, Ris F, Demuylder-Mischler S, Lepetit-Coiffe M, Marangon N, Saudek F, Shapiro AMJ, Bosco D, Berney T. Clinical magnetic resonance imaging of pancreatic islet grafts after iron nanoparticle labelling. Am J Transplant 2008; 8: 701-6.
Bosco D, Armanet M, Morel P, Niclauss N, Sgroi A, Muller YD, Giovannoni L, Parnaud G, Berney T. Unique arrangement of alpha- and beta-cells in human islets of Langerhans. Diabetes 2010, 59: 1202-1210.
Muller Y, Gupta S, Morel P, Borot S, Bettens F, Truchetet ME, Villard J, Seebach JD, Holmberg D, Toso C, Lobrinus JA, Bosco D, Berney T. Transplanted Human Pancreatic Islets After Long-Term Insulin Independence. Am J Transplant 2013 ; 13 : 1093-1097.
Elkhafif N, Borot S, Morel P, Demuylder-Mischler S, Giovannoni L, Toso C, Bosco D, Berney T. Endocrine secretory reserve and proinsulin processing in recipients of islet of Langerhans versus whole pancreas transplants. Diabetes Care 2013 ; 36 : 3726-31.
Berney T, Boffa C, Augustine T, Badet L, De Koning E, Pratschke J, Socci C, Friend P. Utilization of organs from donors after circulatory death for vascularized pancreas and islet of Langerhans transplantation : recommendations from an expert group. Transplant Int 2016 ; 29 : 798-806.
Lebreton F, Lavallard V, Bellofatto K, Bonnet R, Wassmer Ch, Perez L, Kalandadze V, Follenzi A, Boulvain M, Kerr-Conte J, Goodman DJ, Bosco D, Berney T, Berishvili E. Insulin-producing organoids engineered from islet and amniotic epithelial cells to treat diabetes. Nat Commun 2019; 10: 4491
Alibashe-Ambed M, Brioudes E, Rieth W, Bosco D, Berney T. Toll-like receptor 4 inhibition prevents autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Sci Rep 2019; 9: 19350.
Boggi U, Vistoli F, Andres A, Arbogast HP, Badet L, Baronti W, Bartlett ST, Benedetti E, Branchereau J, Burke GW 3rd, Buron F, Caldara R, Cardillo M, Casanova D, Cipriani F, Cooper M, Cupisti A, Davide J, Drachenberg C, de Koning EJP, Ettorre GM, Fernandez Cruz L, Fridell JA, Friend PJ, Furian L, Gaber OA, Gruessner AC, Gruessner RWG, Gunton JE, Han DJ, Iacopi S, Kauffmann EF, Kaufman D, Kenmochi T, Khambalia HA, Lai Q, Langer RM, Maffi P, Marselli L, Menichetti F, Miccoli M, Mittal S, Morelon E, Napoli N, Neri F, Oberholzer J, Odorico JS, Öllinger R, Oniscu G, Orlando G, Ortenzi M, Perosa M, Perrone VG, Pleass H, Redfield RR, Ricci C, Rigotti P, Paul Robertson R, Ross LF, Rossi M, Saudek F, Scalea JR, Schenker P, Secchi A, Socci C, Sousa Silva D, Squifflet JP, Stock PG, Stratta RJ, Terrenzio C, Uva P, Watson CJE, White SA, Marchetti P, Kandaswamy R, Berney T. First World Consensus Conference on pancreas transplantation: Part II – recommendations. Am J Transplant. 2021; 21(Suppl 3): 17-59.
- Book chapters
Izui S, Spertini F, Shibata T, Berney T, Abdelmoula M, Reininger L, Lambert PH. Experimental models of cryoglobulinemia. In: Dammaco F, ed. Immunological aspects of malignant lymphoma and cryoglobulinemia.
Ed. Ermes, Milano 1990; pp 177-191.
Berney T, Izui S.
Therapeutic approach of murine cryoglobulinemia by high-dose immunoglobulins.
In: Imbach P, ed. Immunotherapy with intravenous immunoglobulins.
Academic Press, London 1991; pp 470-471.
Berney T, Pileggi A, Inverardi L.
Natural Killer cells as a barrier to xenotransplantation.
In: Platt JL, ed. Xenotransplantation.
ASM Press, Washington, DC 2001; pp 85-98.
Berney T, Ricordi C.
New strategies for islet cell transplantation. In: Pozzilli P, Pozzili C, Kapp JF,
eds. New concepts in pathology and treatment of autoimmune disorders.
Springer, Berlin 2001; pp 101-121.
Berney T, Pileggi A, Molano RD, Ricordi C.
Pancreatic islet cells. In: Atala A, Lanza R, eds. Methods of tissue engineering.
Academic Press, San Diego 2002; pp 203-218.
Pileggi A, Molano RD, Berney T, Inverardi L.
Antibody-dependent effects on cellular immunity. In: Platt JL,
ed. Xenotransplantation: Basic research and clinical applications.
Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey 2002; pp. 199-214.
Berney T, Kenyon NS, Alejandro R, Inverardi L, Mintz DH, Ricordi C.
Islet transplantation. In: Sperling MA, ed. Type 1 diabetes: etiology and treatment. Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey 2003; pp. 529-552.
Toso C, Berney T.
Islet graft monitoring and imaging. In: Shapiro J, Shaw JAM, eds. Islet Transplantation and Beta Cell Replacement Therapy. Informa Healthcare, New York 2007; pp. 179-191.
Wojtusciszyn A, Badet L, Berney T, Milliat-Guittard L, Benhamou PY. Networking applied to clinical islet transplantation: Rationale and experience from the GRAGIL network. In: Halle JP, de Vos P, Rosenberg L, eds. The Bioartificial Pancreas and Other Biohybrid Therapies. Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum 2009; pp. 425-437.
Niclauss N, Meier R, Bédat B, Berishivili E, Berney T.
Beta-cell replacement : pancreas and islet cell transplantation. In : C Stettler, E Christ, P Diem, eds. Novelties in diabetes. Karger, Basel 2016; pp. 146-62.
Berney T, Badet L.
Pancreas transplantation. In: G Oniscu, J Forsythe, eds. Atlas of Transplantation Surgery. Springer, Berlin 2018; pp. 461-84.
Berney T, Alibashe-Ahmed M, Gastaldi G, Andres A. Eligibility of patients with type 1 diabetes for islet transplantation alone. In: G. Orlando, L. Piemonti, C. Ricordi, R.J. Stratta, R.W.G. Gruessner, eds. Transplantation, Bioengineering and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas. Academic Press, San Diego, CA 2019; pp. 407-16.
Kessler L, Greget M, Grenet D, Olland A, Berney T, Kessler R. Pancreatic islet transplantation in cystic fibrosis: Lung and islet transplantation. In: G. Orlando, L. Piemonti, C. Ricordi, R.J. Stratta, R.W.G. Gruessner, eds. Transplantation, Bioengineering and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas. Academic Press, San Diego, CA 2019; pp. 433-38.
Alibashe-Ahmed M, Lablanche S, Benhamou PY, Wojtusciszyn A, Cattan P, Pernin N, Kessler L, Badet L, Berney T, Andres A. Eligibility of patients with type 1 diabetes for islet transplantation alone. In: G. Orlando, L. Piemonti, C. Ricordi, R.J. Stratta, R.W.G. Gruessner, eds. Transplantation, Bioengineering and Regeneration of the Endocrine Pancreas. Academic Press, San Diego, CA 2019; pp. 626-36.
Berney T, Andres A, Wassmer CH, Berishvili E. Islet Transplantation. In: R.W.G. Gruessner, A. Gruessner, eds. Transplantation of the Pancreas. Springer Nature, Cham, 2022; in press.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| General Surgery I, General Surgery II |
2002-2022 : Surgical semeiology, Bachelor program, University of Geneva School of Medicine 2002-2022: Surgery, Master program, University of Geneva School of Medicine 2002-2022: Optional course in transplantation, Master program, University of Geneva School of Medicine |