For his achievements in cancer research, the cell biologist Prof. Michael N. Hall, from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has been awarded the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize 2019. The Prize Ceremony will take place on January 31, 2019, during the international Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Symposium in Zurich.
On Friday, 30 November 2018, the University of Basel held a traditional ceremony to celebrate its Dies Academicus – for the 558th time. The writer Hansjörg Schneider and the blockchain developer Vitalik Buterin were made honorary doctors along with the hospice founder Verena Grether, the medical engineer Robert Riener, the federal judge Thomas Stadelmann, the neuroscientist Thomas R. Insel, the theologian Hans-Martin Barth, and the illustrator Armin Coray. The Alumni Prize was awarded to the economist Beatrice Weder di Mauro.
Two scientists from the University and the University Hospital Basel receive one of the coveted ERC Consolidator Grants. The European Research Council awards grants to the computer scientist Malte Helmert and the physician Lukas Jeker.Jeker.
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has approved the financing of four new assistant professorships at the University of Basel as part of the newly announced Eccellenza fellowships. At the same time, two Eccellenza Grants have also been approved, bringing a total of around CHF 9.5 million in third-party funding to Basel.
Do natural scientists write differently than humanities scholars? Are women better readers? What makes for good writing? On the occasion of the University’s «Writing Day» on 29 November 2018, four professors explain why writing matters for themselves and their disciplines.
T3 Pharma, a biotech start-up company of the University of Basel with a focus on immuno-oncology, has been named “2018 Science Start-Up of the Year” by Falling Walls Venture. The award honors the scientist-entrepreneurs for their breakthrough business model in bacterial cancer therapy.
The University of Basel has accepted the challenges of the 2018 to 2021 performance period and defined the necessary measures. On the one hand, payments into the real estate fund will be reduced and reserves will be released. At the same time, the budgets of the faculties and departments will be reduced by an average of 2.5 percent. The implementation of these measures will ensure that the University of Basel can continue to develop in strategically important areas during this performance period, despite a decline in its global contribution.
Today, the European Commission launched its flagship initiative on quantum technologies. Three research groups from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel are involved. The aim of the 1 billion euro research and technology funding program is to develop radically new and powerful quantum technologies by exploiting various quantum effects.
Air pollution and transportation noise are both associated with an increased risk of heart attacks. Studies on air pollution, which do not take into account traffic noise, tend to overestimate the long-term effect of air pollution on heart attacks.
