Professor Uwe Pühse of the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel has been awarded a UNESCO Chair in "Physical Activity and Health in Educational Settings". The Chair will examine the relationships between exercise and sport, health and academic performance, and develop specific improvement measures. Professor Cheryl Walter from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has been appointed Co-Chair.
Werner Arber, Professor emeritus of Microbiology and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 celebrates his 90th birthday on 3 June 2019. Werner Arber is one of the founding members of the University of Basel’s Biozentrum and former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He also made other important contributions to science policy.
The President`s Board of the University of Basel has appointed Prof. Dr. Giusi Moffa as Assistant Professor of Statistics.
Nanopharmacy promises to deliver pioneering innovations in drug development. For this cutting-edge technology, the University of Basel is setting up two professorships in Nanopharmaceutical and Regulatory Science, which are to receive CHF 10 million in funding from Vifor Pharma Group. This public-private partnership aims to provide Switzerland with the tools and skilled workers it needs to face the global competition.
Physicists at the University of Basel are able to show for the first time how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. A newly developed method enables them to show the probability of an electron being present in a space. This allows improved control of electron spins, which could serve as the smallest information unit in a future quantum computer.
Flora Colledge is a postdoc and professional triathlete. At the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel, the sports scientist is heading a study on “movement addiction.” The aim is to fundamentally investigate and classify the phenomenon, as sports addiction has not yet been recognized as either a disease or a disorder. This is also of relevance to the development of support measures for those affected.
Santhera Pharmaceuticals and the University of Basel’s Biozentrum announce their collaboration to advance gene therapy research for the treatment of congenital muscular dystrophy. Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency – and Santhera will jointly invest 1.2 million Swiss Francs into this research program.
The relay station of the brain, the substantia nigra consists of different types of nerve cells and is responsible for controlling the execution of diverse movements. Researchers at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum have now characterized two of these cell populations more precisely and has been able to assign an exact function to each of them.
The deep sea is home to fish species that can detect various wavelengths of light in near-total darkness. Unlike other vertebrates, they have several genes for the light-sensitive photopigment rhodopsin. The findings were published in the journal Science by evolutionary biologists from the University of Basel.