06 Mar 2020

Carolyn King’s research group shows that specialized helper cells contribute to immunological memory

Marko Künzli, David Schreiner, and collaborators from Basel, Cambridge and the US demonstrated in a recent article published in Science Immunology that T follicular helper cells (Tfh) live much longer than previously thought and contribute…

13 Feb 2020

Nicola Aceto receives Friedrich Miescher Award 2020

The DBM congratulates Prof. Nicola Aceto, research group leader of the Cancer Metastasis research group, with this achievement for his research on circulating tumor cell clusters. The Friedrich Miescher Award honors Swiss or Swiss-based…

15 Jan 2020

The European Research Council awards Claudia Lengerke an ERC Consolidator Grant

With nearly 2 million Euro, Claudia Lengerke and her team will investigate how leukemia stem cells can be more efficiently targeted. This is the first individual ERC Grant for a clinical professorship at the University of Basel. Uni News

17 Dec 2019 / Research

National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR): “AntiResist”

Basel will host the new NCCR that focuses on novel approaches to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Prof. Nina Khanna and Prof. Adrian Egli from the Department of Biomedicine and University Hospital will have a leading role in the…

12 Nov 2019

Tanja Rinaldi Barkat’s research group shows white noise improves hearing

In collaboration with researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Rasmus Kordt Christensen and colleagues revealed that hearing pure sounds becomes more precise with a background of continuous white noise, better than in a quiet…