Kesselring receives Margrit Egnér Award
Prof. Dr. med. Jürg Kesselring has received the Margrit Egnér Award for his lifetime achievements in anthropological and humanistic psychology at the award ceremony on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Koetser Award for Christopher Kennard
The Koetser Award 2015 went to Prof. Christopher Kennard of the University of Oxford for his work on saccadic eye movements. Following a eulogy by Prof. Klara Landau, Prof. [...]
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. [...]
ERC Advanced Research Grants for two ZNZ members
Two leading researchers of the ZNZ have been awarded the European Union’s top research award, the “Advanced Grant” of the European Research Council (ERC). The EU will [...]
Steiger receives Brain@McGill research travel award
Vivian Roger Steiger has received a Laszlo and Etelka Kollar Brain@McGill Graduate/Postgraduate Travel Award. He will travel to Montreal to apply a new method in neuroimaging [...]
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 [...]
SNSF Consolidator Grant for Jessberger
The SNSF Consolidator Grants are part of the Temporary Backup Schemes launched in March 2014. They made it possible for outstanding researchers working or planning to work at [...]