Awards

Recent honors

HMZ Award for Helena Aicher and Michael Müller “HMZ Award – The PhD challenge” honors a team of PhD students working towards a joint scientific idea, focusing on the collaboration’s quality and originality rather than […]

Awards

Recent honors

SNFS Advanced Grant 23 for Fritjof Helmchen The Grant finances a project investigating memory formation in the brain. So far, glial cells were barely considered when studying memory formation. Evidence is now growing stronger that […]

Awards

Cloëtta Prize 2023

Professor Sebastian Jessberger of the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich has been awarded the 2023 Cloëtta Prize by the Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation. We warmly congratulate him on this award! For […]

Awards

UZH 3R Award 

The UZH 3R Award highlights the achievements of UZH staff in the field of 3Rs (Replace, Reduce, and Refine Animal Experiments). This prestigious prize is bestowed upon an individual or team from UZH who has made a […]

Awards

Cellular big bang of multiple sclerosis

Florian Ingelfinger, an immunologist at the University of Zürich, has won the Pfizer Research Award. Ingelfinger was studying Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmunity disease causing inflammatory reactions in the central nervous system and the spinal […]

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ETH medals for doctoral theses

Two doctoral theses at the ZNZ PhD Program in Neuroscience were awarded the ETH medal 2022. We congratulate the award winners and wish them all the best for their future research careers. The medal winners […]

Awards

Valerio Zerbi Receives Eccelenza

SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships are aimed at highly qualified young researchers who aspire to a permanent professorship. Valerio Zerbi from the Department of Health, Science and Technology at ETH Zürich was awarded with one. He […]

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ERC Starting Grant for Katharina Gapp

In her ERC funded project “Heritability of stress receptor signatures in the germline Father-Son-Talks“, Katharina Gapp aims to investigate mechanisms how stress or trauma can affect not only directly exposed individuals but also their descendants. […]

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New ZNZ PhD Grants 2021

The Board of the Bertha-Meierhofer Fund decided to support three young research groups with PhD Grants covering doctoral student salaries. The following students are supported: Zacharoula Kagiampaki in the group of Tommaso Patriarchi is working […]