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 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.
Prof. Camilo Perez from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been selected to be an “EMBO Young Investigator” by the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO. The structural biologist is one of 30 junior researchers to receive the distinction this year.
Mark Pieth, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Basel and President of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance, has been appointed to the University of the Western Cape in South Africa as an Extraordinary Professor.
Prof. Dr. Botond Roska from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel has been awarded the prestigious Bressler Prize. The Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) is honored for his outstanding achievements in the development of innovative therapies for the eye.
Professor Sebastian Hiller from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been awarded the Founder’s Medal of the International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS). He receives the medal for his groundbreaking work on the elucidation of the structure and function of proteins.
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