Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Frank J. Rühli

Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM)
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich

Frank Rühli studied Medicine at the University of Zurich, worked as an assistant at the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, and completed a PhD at the University of Adelaide. He served as a professor and head of the Center of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich before becoming Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine in 2014. He has extensive experience teaching gross anatomy, histology, paleopathology, biomedical imaging, and biological anthropology, and has supervised multiple PhD, BScHons, MD, DVM, and DMD dissertations. He currently heads the cross-sectional disciplines at the Medical Faculty in Zurich.

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults. in Nature, 2019, 569, 260–264, (with NCD Risk Factor Collaboration). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x

BMI distribution/social stratification in Swiss conscripts from 1875 to present, in Eur J Clin Nutr, 2010, 64, 335–340, (with Kaspar Staub, Ulrich Woitek, and Christian Pfister). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2010.7

Variability of Human Foramen Magnum Size, in Anat Rec, 2009, 292, 1713-1719, (with Philipp Gruber,  Maciej Henneberg, and Thomas Böni). https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.21005

Diagnostic value of micro-CT in comparison with histology in the qualitative assessment of historical human skull bone pathologies, in Am. J. Phys. Anthropol, 2007, 133, 1099-1111, (with G. Kuhn,  R. Evison,  R. Müller, and M. Schultz). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20611

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