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. 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.
The Swiss Foundation for Tuberculosis Research confers the Swiss TB Award 2016 to Swiss TPH researcher Mireia Coscolla for her new insights on the antigenic variation of tuberculosis bacteria. The value of the prize is 10,000 Swiss Francs.
