This year’s ZNZ Best PhD Award went to Lukas Bachmann for the excellent work performed in the group of Martin Schwab at the Brain Research Institute. He and his colleagues could restore mobility in partially […]
Fritjof Helmchen, Professor at the Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, receives a 750’000 US-Dollar grant from the American “National Institutes of Health” in their first round of funding for President Obama’s BRAIN initiative. Fritjof […]
On 22-23 September 2014, the second joint workshop ZNZ/UCL Neuroscience took place in Zurich. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the progress made in various collaborative projects set up last year and identify […]
A ticking clock that we no longer hear, the touch of clothes we no longer feel: We perceive the world as our brain continuously filters the incoming sensory information from our environment. How this adaptation […]
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was started to create awareness of research in rare diseases such as ALS, and to increase funding for research on these diseases. It has become quite a social-media-hype in the […]
This year’s Koetser Brain Research Award goes to Prof. Massimo Scanziani of the University of San Diego. He receives the award in appreciation of his outstanding research in the field of neuronal networks, particularly for […]
What is fear about? Why is it important and why does the Zoological Museum Zurich feature an exhibition about this basic emotion? ZNZ News interviews Isabel Klusman of Life Science Zurich, responsible in Zurich for […]
Men and women do not have the same career chances in Switzerland, even though gender equality is enshrined in the Swiss Constitution. Yet gender equality creates economic, social and individual benefits. The ZNZ gender equality […]
In order to study functional connectivity with fMRI in the mouse brain, the animals have to be anesthetized. But how do anesthetics influence functional connectivity and which anesthetics should be used for fMRI? The recent […]
Ajmal Zemmar wins the EANS Aesculap Prize 2014 for the best research paper. He is awarded €5000 for his excellent contribution to brain research. Each year, the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) awards the […]
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