Awards

The Board of the Bertha-Meierhofer Fund has awarded PhD grants to three young research groups to fund doctoral student positions.  The following students are supported:  Hanna Preuss in the group of Mohamad El Amki will investigate the landscapes […]

Congratulations! Tobias Weiss from the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Zurich has been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant for his project “Decoding the Functional Heterogeneity of Brain Tumors for Next-Generation Therapies and Precision Diagnostics.”   We wish him every success […]

Astrocytes are star-shaped brain cells that react to state change and arousal. However, little is known about the principles of how they process these inputs. Peter Rupprecht and his team are using advanced 3D imaging […]

The following members of the Neuroscience Center have recently received an SNF Advanced Grant. They are two out of three recipients of this prestigious grant in the life sciences. Mehmet Fatih YanikYanik’s team is developing […]

Out of 205 reviewed applications, the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF has awarded 19 Consolidator Grants last August. Aiman Samir Saab from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich is one […]

Richard Hahnloser from ETH Zurich and UZH has received a distinguished fellowship at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for 2024–25. This award highlights his research and gives him the opportunity to collaborate with leading […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]