The biotech company T3 Pharmaceuticals, a spin-off of the University of Basel, has been awarded the Swiss Economic Award 2021 in the hightech/biotech category. The start-up working in the field of immuno-oncology is developing a cancer therapy based on living bacteria.
Prof. Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been honored by the Senate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the degree of Doctor philosophiae honoris causa.
Mathematician Dr. Gabriel Dill likes things a bit complicated: For the Matura, he wrote a satire on Berlusconi – in Latin. And for his doctoral thesis, he chose a field that is quite exotic even for insiders: Diophantine geometry. His dissertation has now been awarded the Prix Schläfli by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).
The Foundation Fighting Blindness has granted 600,000 USD to help Hendrik Scholl as principal investigator define a novel way of reversing blindness. Hendrik Scholl is professor of ophthalmology at the University of Basel and clinical director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB).
Professor Prisca Liberali of the University of Basel receives the Friedrich Miescher Award 2021 for her research on design principles of tissue organization. She shares the award with EPFL Professor Andrea Ablasser.
The Covid-19 pandemic has meant that a number of special anniversaries couldn’t be properly celebrated in 2020. The University of Basel was also forced to cancel the ceremony to mark its 560th Dies Academicus. Nevertheless, the university is honoring a number of its scientists and researchers for their outstanding achievements.
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded seven new assistant professorships to the University of Basel. Among others, the projects supported in connection with the Eccellenza program come from the fields of theoretical physics, immunopathology and psychology, and will each receive an average of about one and a half million Swiss francs.
This year’s Cloëtta Prize is awarded to researchers from Basel and Bern. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Professor of Experimental Surgical Oncology at the University and University Hospital of Basel, and Nadia Mercader Huber, Professor in Anatomy, Developmental Biology and Regeneration at the University of Bern. They will each receive 50,000 Swiss francs.
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Basel, receives the Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2020. With this award, the German Astronomical Society honors his research at the interface between nuclear physics and astronomy.