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. Marek Basler of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has been elected as a new member of the renowned European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Basler is now one of a select group of more than 2,000 leading life scientists in Europe and beyond who have so far been honored by EMBO for their outstanding research achievements with this lifetime membership.
Dr. Maria Longobardi, scientific coordinator at the National Center of Competence in Research SPIN of the Department of Physics, University of Basel has been named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). With her election, the APS honors her work in fostering international relationships between scientists.
Filippo M. Rijli, professor of neurobiology at the University of Basel and group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), has been elected Member of the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Ed Constable, Professor of Chemistry and former Vice President for Research at the University of Basel, has been appointed a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The Federal Council has nominated Nadja Braun Binder as new president of the Federal Statistics Committee. Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Basel, she will take up her post on 1 April 2022.
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.
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