The University of Basel has appointed new professors of experimental pathology, pneumology, Latin studies, statistics and data science and youth mental health.
The Science Faculty of the University of Basel awarded Prof Kelly Chibale (59) with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the life-science-cluster in Basel. He is a renowned chemist, who founded the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Center in Cape Town, South Africa.
At the Dies Academicus, the University of Basel awarded honorary doctorates to seven figures from academia and society.
Pregnancy and motherhood lead to brain remodeling. A research team at the University of Basel has now discovered through experiments with mice that distinct pools of stem cells in the adult brain are turned on during pregnancy. They give rise to specific types of olfactory bulb neurons, the team reports in “Science”.
The biotech company T3 Pharmaceuticals, a spin-off from the University of Basel, is being acquired by the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. T3 Pharma has developed a novel technology that uses live bacteria to deliver therapeutic proteins to cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment.
Recent research by Basel archaeologist Dorota Wojtczak together with a team of researchers from France and Denmark has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France) were actually made by Neanderthals.
When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have been able to demonstrate this for the first time using a newly developed method. This innovative technique enables the tracking of gene expression during the development of bacterial communities over space and time.
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.
People who drink more than three liters of fluid a day may be suffering from a rare hormone deficiency. For many, however, it is just a harmless habit. Failing to differentiate the two correctly can be fatal, so researchers have been investigating what kind of test delivers a reliable diagnosis.