Awards & Honors
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
Prof. Alex Schier from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. With this election, the AAAS honors Schier’s scientific contributions in the field of developmental biology.
Prof. J. Grayson Camp, PhD, assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and research group leader at the Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering, has been recognized as an EMBO Young Investigator by the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO.
Together with a team of international experts, Professor Silvia Arber at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) receives 8 million Swiss Francs from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) initiative to investigate Parkinson's.
The Max Planck Institute Halle appoints Prof. Dr. Daniel Loss from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel as a new external scientific member.
The governing council of Basel awarded this year's Science Prize of the city of Basel to Professor Pico Caroni. The neurobiologist, who is a group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute and professor of neurobiology at the University of Basel, is being honored for his life's work in basic neuroscience research - memory research in particular - and for establishing Basel as a main center for research in the field of neuronal circuits.
Anne Spang, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has become a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The election to the Academy is considered to be one of the highest honors for scientists awarded by a German institution.
Radek Skoda, professor of molecular medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedicine, receives the award 2020 of the Fondazione San Salvatore.
Thomas Ward, professor of bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Basel and director of the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering receives the 2021 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science for his development of artificial metalloenzymes for biocatalysis and synthetic biology.
Botond Roska, Professor at the University of Basel and Director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), has been awarded with a Sanford and Susan Greenberg Visionary Prize to End Blindness.
