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Unraveling brain adaptability

Since its start in January 2021, a consortium of UZH research groups in the University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning” (AdaBD) has been working on unraveling the complexities of […]

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EBV’s link to Multiple Sclerosis

Profs. Burkhard Becher, Christian Münz, & Tobias Derfuss recently obtained a Sinergia Grant of the SNSF. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative autoimmune disease that is thought to be triggered by infectious diseases. Although the […]

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Finding new ways to treat glioblastoma

In January 2022, Hans-Georg Wirsching and his research group started their  project, “A phase Ib/II randomized drug repurposing trial of glutamate signaling inhibitors in combination with chemoradiotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GLUGLIO)”, which […]

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Improving personalized wearables

Melika Payvand, SNSF Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich (UZH), was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant. In February, she started working on her project “UNITE: Brain-inspired device-circuits-algorithm co-design for resource-constrained hardware on the edge” […]

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A Warehouse for Neuroscience

Benjamin Ineichen, group leader at the Center for Reproducible Science at the University of Zurich, will lead the project “Advancing 3R – Animals, Research and Society” from the National Research Program 79. He will establish […]

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A New Perspective On Neurodegeneration

Magdalini Polymenidou from the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of Zurich has received an ERC Consolidator Grant. Together with her team she will employ a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to identify the molecular […]

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From Data to the Clinic

Catherine Jutzeler was awarded in 2020 both an SNSF Spark Grant and an SNSF Ambizione Grant to set up her own research group. Only one year later, she has been appointed as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor […]