1995 – 1997 Postdoctoral fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and from the Harvard University, Boston, MA 1999–2005 Research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation entitled "Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Methods in Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs: Assessing Risks and Benefits of Long-Term Exposure to Drugs in Cardiovascular Medicine", and "Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Methods in Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs: Assessing Risks and Benefits of Long-Term Exposure to Drugs" 2002 Award "Best Doctoral Thesis of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Basel in 2002" for my doctoral student Brigitta Schlegel, MD, who conducted a study entitled "HMG-CoA-reductase inhibitors and the risk of fractures", published in JAMA in 2000 2005 Clinical Award for the best publication of the year 2005 by the Swiss Bone and Mineral Society (SBMS) for the publication "Use of beta-blockers and the risk of bone fractures", published in JAMA 2004