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Basel Stadt

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Nina Khanna Gremmelmaier receives the 2019 research prize by the city of Basel

The DBM congratulates Nina Khanna Gremmelmaier, research group leader of the Infection Biology lab, to this acheivement! Official press release Uninews BZ Nau.ch
Natural killer cells (red) attack ordinary leukaemia cells (green), but not leukaemia stem cells (blue).

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Claudia Lengerke and collaborators discovered how Leukaemia Stem Cells develop resistance against immune cells and suggest novel treatment strategies for patients

The Lengerke Lab elucidated how Leukaemia Stem Cells evade the attack by Natural Killer cells and suggest novel strategies for therapy. Their findings have recently been published in Nature.  Uninews
SAMW

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Three prestigious national MD-PhD scholarships awarded to DBM students

The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Cancer Research Foundation award each year a limited number of competitive three-year MD-PhD scholarships. Repeating the success of…
Prof. Judith E Allen, University of Manchester

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The DBM welcomes Prof. Judith E. Allen as new Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Immunology Focal Area

The "Koordinationsgremium Medizin" / KOG has elected Prof. Judith E. Allen to the DBM Scientific Advisory Board in July 2019. She is succeeding Prof. Brigitta Stockinger, who rotated off our Board afer nine years. Judi Allen has a B.Sc.…
Biopolar Disorder

The Cichon group and members of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium have dioscovered 20 new loci associated with bipolar disorder

These GWAS study coordinated by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium identified nine gene sets that provide potential biological mechanisms for bipolar disorder and that address key clinical questions The study was recently publisehd in…