Today, the monitoring committee of the Interreg VA Upper Rhine Program has approved three joint proposals of the Eucor universities. The European Union will provide 5.5 million euros in funding for the three projects of the universities at the Upper Rhine. The Interreg proposal led by the University of Basel seeks to create an Upper Rhine cluster for sustainable research.
Switzerland has honest students: The vast majority of the students that were questioned were against pharmacological cognitive enhancement. Yet the topic should be addressed more actively by the universities.
Basel Biologists hope to develop a new drug to combat bacterial biofilms in the lungs of patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. The Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) is funding the project “Therapeptix” at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel with 350,000 Swiss francs. Two more Biozentrum researchers are therefore heading towards professional independence and the establishment of a spin-off.
On 9 December 2015, the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, and Strasbourg and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology signed the founding documents for the trinational European Campus. The universities have thus broken new ground in cross-border cooperation in Europe: The alliance is the first “European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation” (EGTC) to be supported entirely by universities.
Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the average. Among investigated rivers, the Rhine is thus among those most heavily polluted with microplastics. This is reported by researchers from the University of Basel, who evaluated, for the first time, the plastic concentration at the surface of one of the big European rivers.
Drei Wissenschaftler der Universität Basel haben sich erfolgreich um einen Starting Grant des Europäischen Forschungsrats (ERC) beworben: Der Biomediziner Dr. Nicola Aceto, der Mathematiker Prof. Gianluca Crippa und der Physiker Prof. Philipp Treutlein erhalten in den kommenden fünf Jahren Fördermittel von bis zu 1,7 Millionen Euro.Three researchers from the University of Basel have successfully applied for a starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC): Biomedical specialist Dr. Nicola Aceto, mathematician Professor Gianluca Crippa and physicist Professor Philipp Treutlein will receive funding of up to 1.7 million Euros over the next five years.
Researchers at the University of Basel took a close look at a signaling pathway present in most organisms and found that it suppresses the formation of specific types of brain tumor.
Mice that spent time running on wheels developed twice the normal number of new brain cells and increased their ability to distinguish new objects from familiar objects compared to inactive mice, reports a new study by researcher of the University of Basel.
Today, Friday, November 27 2015, the University of Basel celebrated its Dies Academicus with a traditional ceremony in Basel’s St. Martin’s Church. Seven individuals were awarded honorary doctorates during the ceremony.