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Drug delivery to specific brain regions

March 1, 2023

Mehmet Fatih Yanik from the Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich and UZH has won a Bridge Discovery Award. Yanik and his team recently developed a novel technology for non-invasive focal drug delivery to the […]

Cellular big bang of multiple sclerosis

March 1, 2023

Florian Ingelfinger, an immunologist at the University of Zürich, has won the Pfizer Research Award. Ingelfinger was studying Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmunity disease causing inflammatory reactions in the central nervous system and the spinal […]

ETH medals for doctoral theses

March 1, 2023

Two doctoral theses at the ZNZ PhD Program in Neuroscience were awarded the ETH medal 2022. We congratulate the award winners and wish them all the best for their future research careers. The medal winners […]

Valerio Zerbi Receives Eccelenza

February 7, 2022

SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships are aimed at highly qualified young researchers who aspire to a permanent professorship. Valerio Zerbi from the Department of Health, Science and Technology at ETH Zürich was awarded with one. He […]

ERC Starting Grant for Katharina Gapp

February 4, 2022

In her ERC funded project “Heritability of stress receptor signatures in the germline Father-Son-Talks“, Katharina Gapp aims to investigate mechanisms how stress or trauma can affect not only directly exposed individuals but also their descendants. […]

New ZNZ PhD Grants 2021

February 3, 2022

The Board of the Bertha-Meierhofer Fund decided to support three young research groups with PhD Grants covering doctoral student salaries. The following students are supported: Zacharoula Kagiampaki in the group of Tommaso Patriarchi is working […]

Award for a Musician, Researcher and Therapist

June 1, 2021

The Koetser Award ceremony 2021 had to be cancelled already twice. In July, Prof. Eckart Altenmüller will be finally honored for his outstanding research on music-induced plasticity and therapeutic approached for musicians. Each year, the […]

Who Do You Nominate for The Brain Prize?

June 1, 2021

The call for nominations for The Brain Prize is now open. The Prize is awarded each year by the Lundbeck Foundation and it is currently the world’s largest prize for neuroscience. The Brain Prize is […]

Konrad Akert Lecture 2021

June 1, 2021

Prof. Catherine Dulac is a world-renowned scientist and made a number of seminal discoveries underlying the neurobiology of social behavior. Recently, she identified how the mouse brain regulates crucial mating and parenting behavior. On June […]

PhD Grants 2020

January 20, 2021

In November, ZNZ awarded PhD Grants to three young research groups covering doctoral student salaries. The following students are supported: Jeanne Droux in the group of Susanne Wegener will analyze mechanical properties of neutrophils in […]