Awards

The good news is already a few months old but we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Patrick Freund. Together with Jonas Frisén from the Karolinska Institute, he was awarded with the IRP […]

Tommaso Patriarchi from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his work on visualization of neurotransmitter dynamics in the brain. The European Research Council awards its highly competitive […]

Silvia Brem has been awarded the 2019 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize. The prize consists of CHF 30’000 and is awarded each year for outstanding contributions in the field of medical research.   Silvia Brem received the prize for […]

Five ZNZ Group Leaders are on Clarivate Analytics’ list of the world’s most highly cited researchers. The ZNZ members on the list are: Sebastian Jessberger, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich Burkhard Becher, Institute of […]

Prof. Burkhard Becher was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research projects. He receives 2,5 million Euro over a period of five years from the European Research Council for better prediction of the disease […]

Ivan Jelčić and Faiez Al Nimer from the Department of Neuroimmunology and MS Research at the University Hospital Zurich were among the winners of the 2020 Pfizer Research Award. They have investigated the interactions between […]

Aiman S. Saab has received an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship. His project was one of 45 projects selected for funding out of 229 applications. With its Eccellenza funding scheme, introduced in 2018, the Swiss National […]

This year, the Bertha-Meierhofer Fund supports two young research groups with PhD Grants covering doctoral student salaries. The following students are supported:Kelly Payette will be working on capturing brain morphology development with MRI in fetuses […]

Dr. Sara Bottes is the 2019 winner of the UZH-Award for Research in Brain Diseases. She received the award for her work on stem cell division in the adult mouse brain. A celebration lecture followed […]