02 May 2019

Jan Gründemann and FMI's Lüthi lab investigated the activity of mouse basal amygdala neurons during different behavioural tasks

Jan Gründemann and researches of the laboratory of Andreas Lüthi at the Friederich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Sciences (FMI) have shown that two ensembles of neurons display orthogonal activity during exploratory and nonexploratory…

16 Apr 2019

The European Research Council awards Nicola Aceto a Proof of Concept Grant

With the ERC Proof of Concept Grant, the Aceto lab will furhter develop small molecule inhibitors of circulating tumor cell clusters.

15 Mar 2019 / News, Research

A team of researchers led by Momo Bentires-Alj discoverd how stress hormones promote breast cancer metastasis

The researchers from the Bentires lab elucidated the molecular mechanisms by which stress hormones increase metastasis formation in breast cancer and further revealed that synthetic derivatives of these stress hormones, which are…

15 Mar 2019 / News, Campus

The New DBM Building will be realized by the Basel-based architecture firm Burckhardt+Partner

For details please see the Uninews (in german) or visit the New DBM Building website.

11 Feb 2019 / News, People

Daniela Thommen and co-workers from the Cancer Immunology lab were awarded a 2019 Pfizer Research Prize

The researchers were honoured  for discovering a novel method for increasing the success rate of cancer immunotherapies targeting the PD-1 signaling pathway. Since 1992, the Pfizer Research Prize has been awarded annually for outstanding…