UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Opinion

  Should complementary medicine be the subject of research just like other disciplines,

  Text: Philipp Treutlein / How should university research approach complementary medicine? A debate between a pharmacist and a physician.

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  In pictures

  Trees of relationships.

  Text: Reto Caluori / At its base stands the ancestral couple. From there, the tree rises upward, gradually branching out over successive generations and presenting the picture of a thriving lineage. The family tree is a genealogical diagram that was popular in bourgeois families during the 18th and 19th centuries – and retains its appeal up to the present day.

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  Research

  Tracking metastasis.

  Text: Yvonne Vahlensieck / When cancer cells break away from tumors and enter the bloodstream, they can develop into metastases. Researchers at the Department of Biomedicine are investigating precisely how this process works – and developing new concepts for cancer treatment.

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  Research

  Images of war.

  Text: Michelle Isler / Bridges in ruins, empty streets, people running: A Basel historian asked herself whether photographs from the Bosnian war (1992–1995) share a common visual language. Her findings are revealing.

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  Research

  When fever shuts down the appetite.

  Text: Michelle Isler / The negative impact of malnutrition on the course of an illness has been well known in hospitals for a long time. Yet surprisingly few scientific studies have examined the effects of nutritional medicine to date. A recent survey of 2,000 patients is among the first of its kind.

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  Opinion

  Gender and the law.

  Text: Sandra Hotz / Why legal gender studies play an important role in democracy and justice.

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  Alumni

  Team leader at swisstopo.

  Interview: Bettina Huber / Tobias Providoli studied geography at the University of Basel and works for the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) in Wabern near Bern. He now leads a production team working on the topographic landscape model (TLM) and is also involved in AlumniGeo.

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  Alumni

  Launch of AlumniPharmazie.

  Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / AlumniPharmazie, a new specialist alumni organization that is long overdue, will be launched at the alumni general assembly in June 2020. This process has been driven by the executive board of the Basel Pharmaceutical Society (Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft Basel), which has been around for almost 100 years.

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  Alumni

  The memoirs of Dieter Imboden.

  Dieter Imboden, an environmental researcher and political scientist who spent much of his childhood in Basel, is a past winner of the Alumni Award. He recently published his autobiography.