2019

The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) announces its first four multi-​investigator projects and thus the start of its research activities. D-​BSSE professor Randall Platt will have the lead of a project which aims to develop a CRISPR-​based technology involving engineered bacteria which are capable of sensing, remembering, and reporting on the environment within the gut.

Join D-​BSSE Professor Sai Reddy at the Festival of Biologics on 15-​17 October 2019 in Basel. He will be a speaker at the European Antibody Congress discussing antibody engineering in mammalian cells by genome editing. The conference unites four congresses under one roof. Free and discount passes are available for conference delegates and for visitors to the exhibition.

Mid-​July, a total of 28 research consortia submitted their research proposals in response to the first inaugural funding scheme of the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health. In an interview with D-​BSSE, Georg Holländer and Sai Reddy, the Heads of the Centre, explain how they envision the implementation and evaluation of first activities.

The US national in the Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Immunology of Professor Sai Reddy applies tools in protein engineering and machine learning to the field of immunology. It is his first time living abroad and he believes there is no better location for living than Basel.