The Schellenberg Research Prize 2020 Goes To…
The good news is already a few months old but we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Patrick Freund. Together with Jonas Frisén from the Karolinska [...]
Awards
ERC Grant for Patriarchi
Tommaso Patriarchi from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his work on visualization of neurotransmitter [...]
ZNZ Best PhD Awards 2020
Two prizes were awarded this year – one to Sara Bernardez Noya and one to Lilian Weber for their excellent doctoral theses in sleep research and human perception, [...]
Götz Award for Silvia Brem
Silvia Brem has been awarded the 2019 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize. The prize consists of CHF 30’000 and is awarded each year for outstanding contributions in the field of [...]
Highly Cited Researchers
Five ZNZ Group Leaders are on Clarivate Analytics’ list of the world’s most highly cited researchers. The ZNZ members on the list are: Sebastian Jessberger, Brain [...]
ERC Grant for Becher
Prof. Burkhard Becher was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research projects. He receives 2,5 million Euro over a period of five years from the European Research Council [...]
Pfizer Award for MS Research
Ivan Jelčić and Faiez Al Nimer from the Department of Neuroimmunology and MS Research at the University Hospital Zurich were among the winners of the 2020 Pfizer Research [...]
Eccellenza Fellowship for Saab
Aiman S. Saab has received an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship. His project was one of 45 projects selected for funding out of 229 applications. With its Eccellenza [...]
ZNZ PhD Grants 2019
This year, the Bertha-Meierhofer Fund supports two young research groups with PhD Grants covering doctoral student salaries. The following students are supported:Kelly [...]
Bottes wins Brain Diseases Award
Dr. Sara Bottes is the 2019 winner of the UZH-Award for Research in Brain Diseases. She received the award for her work on stem cell division in the adult mouse brain. A [...]