2017

In October, D-BSSE professor Daniel Müller and his team unveiled the cantilever scale designed to detect minute fluctuations in a living cell’s mass.

ETH Zurich Career Seed Grants for postdoctoral researchers are intended to offer a funding opportunity for postdoctoral projects. D-BSSE members Marcelo Boareto (Iber group) and Weijia Wang (Schroeder group) have now been awarded.

The SRF 1 TV programme "gesundheitheute" broadcast a short documentary about Benjamin Gaub's reserach work (Müller group).  

As part of the 10^th anniversary ceremony of Venture Kick, 12 promising Swiss startups have been listed as so-called "Globals Shapers". These startups have the potential to shape the world of future generations – amongst them three D-BSSE spin-offs.

The Golden Owl 2017 has been awarded to D-BSSE Professor Karsten Borgwardt. Karsten Borgwardt develops novel Data Mining Algorithms to detect patterns and statistical dependencies in large datasets from biology and medicine.

UniteLabs AG is building new kind of flexible, easy and affordable automation for life science research facilities. At the beginning of November, the D-BSSE spin-off was successfully incorporated.

"Monitoring and Manipulating Cellular Crosstalk During Kidney Fibrosis Inside a 3D In Vitro Co-Culture" describes a novel method for imaging-based screening of 3D cell co-cultures, recapitulating the molecular crosstalk between mesenchyme and endothelia during kidney fibrosis. 

The Innosuisse board has appointed 37 new experts for the duration of one year – D-BSSE Professor Martin Fussenegger is one of them. The newly elected experts are going to support the Innovation board in the evaluation of projects and funding applications. Innosuisse promotes science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland.

Enkelejda Miho is a Pioneer Fellow at ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering and develops new large-scale data software for biopharmaceutical drug discovery. Her research aims at uncovering the architecture of complex immune repertoires, and at mining their sequence space features in basic and applied systems immunology. In the interview with ETH News for Industry, she explains how her software immuneS helps identifying promising drug candidates in a billion molecules.

In the newspaper Tagesanzeiger Professor Karsten Borgwardt talks about personalised medicine and big data.