2018
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health: Professor Daniel Müller about success measures and challenges ahead
On 19 September, the University of Basel and ETH Zurich co-founded the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) in Basel. The centre is funded by a CHF 100 million contribution from the Fondation Botnar. In an interview, D-BSSE Professor Daniel Müller describes the unique opportunity to translate the fantastic innovations in biomedicine to cure diseases in children in developing countries.
Graduation of D-BSSE master students
On 1 June, 33 master graduates and their families and friends celebrated the successful completion of their D-BSSE studies in Biotechnology or in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. In total, 51 graduates had completed their MSc. studies since the last graduation ceremony. This year, five outstanding students were awarded prestigious prizes for their Masters diploma or thesis.
Meet Dr Rodrigo Vazquez-Lombardi working on engineered cellular immunotherapies
The Peruvian-Australian researcher recently took up a Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his work on engineered cellular immunotherapies in Professor Sai Reddy's Laboratory.