Ignazio Cassis
Also known as Ignazio Daniele Giovanni Cassis
99th President of the Swiss Confederation
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5 total works indexed
- A method for designing primer sets for speciation studies in filamentous ascomycetes
· 1999 · cited 8,401x
- The European Spondylarthropathy Study Group Preliminary Criteria for the Classification of Spondylarthropathy
· 1991 · cited 1,831x
- Albiglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Harmony Outcomes): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2018 · cited 1,544x
- The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
· 2005 · cited 1,433x
- Angiotensin II promotes atherosclerotic lesions and aneurysms in apolipoprotein E–deficient mice
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Cassis speaking at the 2024 World Economic Forum Ignazio Daniele Giovanni Cassis ( Italian pronunciation: [iɲˈɲattsjo ˈkassis]; born 13 April 1961) is a Swiss physician and politician who has served as a member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1 November 2017 and as Vice President of the Swiss Confederation for 2026. A member of FDP.The Liberals, Cassis was elected to the Federal Council on 20 September 2017 following the resignation of Didier Burkhalter. He has headed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs since he took office. On 8 December 2021, Cassis was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2022.
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