Three New SNSF Professorships for the University of Basel
The Swiss National Science Foundation has awarded three new professorships to the University of Basel. Three researchers, two men and one woman, have chosen the University of Basel as their host institution and will take up their work at the Department of Biomedicine and the Faculty of Psychology.
02 March 2016
Each endowed with 1.6 million Swiss Francs over the course of four years, the SNSF professorships allow these three young researchers to establish their own teams and launch a research project at the University of Basel.
Two SNSF professorships at the Department of Biomedicine
Prof. Dr. Nicola Aceto finished his PhD in 2011 at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI). He then moved to Harvard Medical School where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship. Already since 2015 he has been leading a research group at the Department of Biomedicine where his SNSF professorship will be located as well.
His project studies the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying the development of cancer metastasis, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of human circulating tumor cell clusters. A few months ago, he also received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his research on cell-cell junctions in breast cancer.
Research on protein misfolding
Prof. Dr. Eline Pecho-Vrieseling will also take up her professorship at the Department of Biomedicine. Using Huntington's disease as a model, she studies the role of propagation of misfolded proteins, also found in other neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's.
Eline Pecho-Vrieseling launched her scientific career as a PhD student and postdoc at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel as well as at the FMI. Most recently, she worked for the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
Psychological Flexibility in Social Context
Prof. Dr. Andrew Gloster earned his bachelor degree from Boston University and his doctorate in 2006 at Eastern Michigan University. Prof. Gloster worked at the Technische Universität Dresden for six years and has been working for the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Basel since 2012 in the field of clinical psychology and epidemiology.
He will be conducting a research project with a multi-level approach, examining the effects of psychological flexibility in social context on the outcomes of psychotherapy.
Extended SNSF professorship
In addition, the SNSF has accepted Petr Broz’s application for extension of his SNSF professorship at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.
Further Information
Dr. Bernd Hägele, University of Basel, Vice Rectorate for Research, phone: +41 61 267 27 34, email: Bernd.Haegele@unibas.ch
