Prof. Dr. Hendrik Scholl, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Basel and Clinical Director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Semmelweis University in Hungary.
Botond Roska, professor at the University of Basel and director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), has been awarded the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation. He received the prize with Professor José-Alain Sahel, a Chairman of the IOB Scientific Advisory Board.
Professor Christoph Gerber of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel has been selected as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. The World Cultural Council awarded Gerber the prize in recognition of the fundamental nature and broad applicability of his research on Nanoscale Science.
Bangladesh’s Asian University for Women (AUW) held a special ceremony in April to confer an honorary doctorate on the University of Basel’s president, Professor Andrea Schenker-Wicki.
The Pfizer Research Prize is one of the most prestigious research awards in the field of medicine in Switzerland. This year, the Pfizer Research Prize Foundation has honored seven researchers from the Basel research hub with an award.
Prisca Liberali, Professor at the University of Basel and research group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, receives the Gold Medal of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
In her dissertation, physicist Dr. Natasha Tomm co-developed a super-efficient source of individual photons. Her research could help make data exchange more tap-proof. The Swiss Academy of Sciences has awarded her the Prix Schläfli 2022 in physics.
Prof. Silvia Arber from the Biozentrum, University of Basel, and at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research receives the renowned Brain Prize 2022. With this award, the Lundbeck Foundation recognizes this year's three prizewinners for their pioneering research into the neuronal circuits that control movement.
Susan Gasser, professor emeritus of molecular biology at the University of Basel and former director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Fribourg.