Sibylle Grad studied pharmacy at ETH Zurich, where she graduated in 1991. Following some years working as a pharmacist, she started her PhD degree at the Institute of Cell Biology at ETH Zurich in 1995. She completed her PhD with a doctorate in natural sciences in 1995. After conducting research in San Diego/USA, she received a “Raetia grant” from the AO Research Institute Davos in 2000. Since then, she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and as a researcher at the AO Research Institute. In 2006, she carried out a nine months research stay at Tokai University in Japan. Since 2009, she is head of the research group "cartilage and intervertebral disc regeneration”. Sibylle Grad is a lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, partner of several international projects, co-organizer of international congresses, a member of the editorial committee of scientific journals, and author of more than 75 publications.