Awards

Cloëtta Prize 2015 goes to Helmchen

On November 13, Fritjof Helmchen of the Brain Research Institute was awarded the 2015 Cloëtta Prize, together with Dominique Soldati-Favre of the University of Geneva. The award ceremony took place at the Centre Médicale Universitaire […]

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2015 ZNZ PhD grants

On December 3, the ZNZ Steering Committee has awarded two PhD grants. The grants, each covering a doctoral student’s salary for one year, go to ZNZ group leaders Shiva Tyagarajan of the Institute of Pharmacology […]

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PhD Award for Uli Herrmann

Dr. Uli Herrmann received this year’s ZNZ Best PhD Award for his work on a new substance that blocks propagation of prion proteins and increases survival in prion-infected mice. The prize that comes with a […]

Awards

PhD Thesis completed!

Congratulations! The following students have completed their PhD thesis in the last six months:  Christian Brändli, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH (Supervisor: Dr. Shih-Chii Liu) 20 January 2015 Event-Based Machine Vision Sandrine Deprez, Institute of Pharmacology […]

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Götz Award for neuroscientists

Prof. Bea Latal and Prof. Magdalini Polymenidou have been awarded the 2014 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize. The prize consists of CHF 30’000 and is awarded each year for outstanding contributions to medical research.   Bea Latal received the […]