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The DBM welcomes Mattia Zampieri as new research group leader
Professor Mattia Zampieri has been appointed Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine. He will take up his position at the Department of Biomedicine on 1 January 2023.
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Professor Carolyn King has been appointed as Professor of Infection Immunology
She will take up her new position on 1 October 2022. Carolyn King, born in 1975, received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Research stays took her to the University of California, San Francisco and to Makerere…
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An engineered microenvironment couples angiogenesis and osteogenesis for bone regeneration (Banfi Lab)
In this manuscript we find that controlling the dose distribution of VEGF protein in an osteogenic graft is key to maintaining the physiological coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis that is required for effective bone regeneration.
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A coat of fat and sugar helps cancer cells to spread (Heinzelmann Lab)
Changes to tumor cells during metastasis depend on certain molecules on the cell surface. Here, the importance of “glycolipids” in the spread of ovarian cancer has been deciphered by a Basel-led international team. These findings could pave…