Dr. Vîktor von Wyl

Particulars

Name
Viktor von Wyl
Position
Senior Researcher
at the CSS Institute for empirical health economics
Tribschenstrasse 21
CH-6002 Luzern

Education

1984-1996
Schools in Sarnen, Obwalden
1996-2002
Studies of Biology und Economics at the University of Basel
2005-2008
Doctoral dissertation (PhD) on epidemiology, emergence and management of resistance against HIV treatments, conducted at the University Hospital Zurich and the ETH Zurich

Career

2002-2004
Data Manager/Analyst for the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
2004-2010
Scientific researcher at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich
Seit 2008
Lecturer for Medical Informatics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich
2010-2011
Post-doctoral fellow at the University College London, HIV Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group, London, UK

Selected Publications


von Wyl, Viktor, Sabine Yerly, et al. (2007): "Emergence of HIV-1 drug resistance in previously untreated patients initiating combination antiretroviral treatment: a comparison of different regimen types", in: Archives of Internal Medicine; 167(16), p. 1782-90.

von Wyl, Viktor, Sabine Yerly, et al. (2009): "Long-term trends of HIV type 1 drug resistance prevalence among antiretroviral treatment-experienced patients in Switzerland", in: Clinical Infectious Diseases; 48(7), p. 979-87.

von Wyl, Viktor, Maryam Ehteshami, et al. (2010): "HIV-1 reverse transcriptase connection domain mutations: dynamics of emergence and implications for success of combination antiretroviral therapy", in: Clinical Infectious Diseases; 51(5), p. 620-8.

von Wyl, Viktor, Roger D. Kouyos, et al. (2011): " The Role of Migration and Domestic Transmission in the Spread of HIV-1 Non-B Subtypes in Switzerland", in: Journal of Infectious Diseases; 204(7), p. 1095-1103.

von Wyl, Viktor, Sabine Yerly, et al.: "Incidence of HIV-1 Drug Resistance Among Antiretroviral Treatment Naive Individuals Starting Modern Therapy Combinations", in: Clinical Infectious Diseases; in press.

von Wyl, Viktor, Valentina Cambiano, et al. "Simulation of inclusion of tenofovir instead of zidovudine for firstline antiretroviral therapy in settings without virological monitoring: Emerging resistance patterns and implications for cost-effectiveness", submitted.