Awards Archives - Page 6 of 7

2015 ZNZ PhD grants

December 9, 2015

On December 3, the ZNZ Steering Committee has awarded two PhD grants. The grants, each covering a doctoral student’s salary for one year, go to ZNZ group leaders Shiva Tyagarajan of the Institute of Pharmacology […]

PhD Award for Uli Herrmann

October 6, 2015

Dr. Uli Herrmann received this year’s ZNZ Best PhD Award for his work on a new substance that blocks propagation of prion proteins and increases survival in prion-infected mice. The prize that comes with a […]

Koetser Award for Christopher Kennard

October 6, 2015

The Koetser Award 2015 went to Prof. Christopher Kennard of the University of Oxford for his work on saccadic eye movements. Following a eulogy by Prof. Klara Landau, Prof. Kennard received the Award from the […]

PhD Thesis completed!

July 2, 2015

Congratulations! The following students have completed their PhD thesis in the last six months: Christian Brändli, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH (Supervisor: Dr. Shih-Chii Liu) 20 January 2015 Event-Based Machine Vision Sandrine Deprez, Institute of Pharmacology […]

ERC Advanced Research Grants for two ZNZ members

July 2, 2015

Two leading researchers of the ZNZ have been awarded the European Union’s top research award, the “Advanced Grant” of the European Research Council (ERC). The EU will support research projects with a total of approximately […]

Steiger receives Brain@McGill research travel award

July 2, 2015

Vivian Roger Steiger has received a Laszlo and Etelka Kollar Brain@McGill Graduate/Postgraduate Travel Award. He will travel to Montreal to apply a new method in neuroimaging that was developed at the Computational Brain Anatomy Laboratory […]

Götz Award for neuroscientists

May 3, 2015

Prof. Bea Latal and Prof. Magdalini Polymenidou have been awarded the 2014 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize. The prize consists of CHF 30’000 and is awarded each year for outstanding contributions to medical research. Bea Latal received the […]

SNSF Consolidator Grant for Jessberger

February 20, 2015

The SNSF Consolidator Grants are part of the Temporary Backup Schemes launched in March 2014. They made it possible for outstanding researchers working or planning to work at a Swiss research institution to apply for […]

Research prize 2015 of the Swiss Brain League

February 20, 2015

The Swiss Brain League calls for proposals for the Research prize. The prize is awarded to outstanding contributions in the field of neurological research. Every two years, a prize of CHF 20,000 is awarded to […]

“Clocks, Sleep, and the Ageing Brain” receives Velux Grant

December 1, 2014

The groups of Prof. Steven Brown (UZH), Prof. Nicolas Cermakian (McGill University) and Prof. Russell Foster (Oxford University) have been awarded a 400’000 SFr grant by the Velux Foundation for their joint research project “Clocks, […]