Awards

Awards

Isabelle Mansuy Fellow of EURASC

July 2, 2017
Prof. Isabelle Mansuy was elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in March 2017. This prestigious international association of distinguished scholars recognizes and elects the best European scientists as fellows. The European Academy […]
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Aguzzi awarded major Belgian Prize

July 2, 2017
Prof. Adriano Aguzzi wins the Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize 2017. He received the prize, worth 250,000 Euros from Queen Mathilde from Belgium. Adriano Aguzzi, Director of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Zurich, […]
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New SNSF Professors @ ZNZ

April 2, 2017
Three ZNZ members have been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) professorship. The ZNZ congratulates Bigna Lenggenhager, Susanne Wegener and Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu. Every year, the SNSF issues a call for proposals for SNSF assistant […]
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Phoenix Award for Zeilhofer

December 9, 2016
Prof. Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer and his group have been honored with the Phoenix-Pharmacy Research Award. The group received the award in recognition of their research on the identification of a new target for the treatment […]
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Robert-Bing-Prize for Jessberger

June 7, 2016
The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences has awarded Sebastian Jessberger of the Brain Research Institute the Robert-Bing-Prize for his outstanding achievements in neuroscience research. Jessberger shares the prize of CHF 60,000 with Caroline Pot of […]
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Rajendran receives SCOR Prize

June 7, 2016
Professor Lawrence Rajendran receives the SCOR Young Researcher European Grand Prize for his innovative research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Rajendran of the Systems and Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration, Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of […]
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UZH honorary doctorate for Friston

June 7, 2016
Prof. Karl Friston, University College London, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Zurich in recognition for his pioneering work in developing mathematical methods for human brain imaging and […]
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PhD Thesis completed!

December 9, 2015
Congratulations! The following students have completed their PhD thesis in the last six months:  Michael Arzt, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Schwab) 24 September 2015 Structural Analysis of the Interface between […]
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Cloëtta Prize 2015 goes to Helmchen

December 9, 2015
On November 13, Fritjof Helmchen of the Brain Research Institute was awarded the 2015 Cloëtta Prize, together with Dominique Soldati-Favre of the University of Geneva. The award ceremony took place at the Centre Médicale Universitaire […]