Thanks to Pascal Maser (SwissTPH) for inviting me to present our latest apoL1 and anti-leishmanial drug RNAi library findings at the 2017 SwissTryp meeting in Leysin, Switzerland (11th-13th January, 2017). It was a great opportunity to hear about some of the great trypanosomatid research going on in Switzerland – social motility, mitchondrial biology, drug resistance, lipid metabolism and gene expression regulation, to name just a few areas that were addressed during the two day programme.