In a refreshing change of scenery, the researchers of our institute stepped out of their labs and gathered at the uptown Basel area for the 2025 Biozentrum Symposium. This year’s organizing committee, headed by Prof. Silvia…
On November 28, 2025, Prof. em. Ueli Aebi passed away at the age of 79 years. With his death, the Biozentrum has lost an outstanding scientist, a visionary architect of modern structural biology, and an exceptional mentor.…
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. By endowing a professorship, the Georg H. Endress Foundation is helping the University of Basel expand its research into the biophysical foundations of…
Prof. Torsten Schwede The ICSB honors Torsten Schwede, Professor of Structural Bioinformatics at the Biozentrum and Vice President for Research of the University of Basel, for his substantial contributions to computational…
This year, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has admitted 23 new members to the Class II Life Sciences, including Prof. Anne Spang, who has been conducting research and teaching at the Biozentrum of the…
May 15th, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Eduard Kellenberger. The physicist has not only gone down in the history and textbooks as a pioneer of electron microscopy but also as an early representative…
A farewell event will be held on June 4, 2021, at 4 p.m. in honor of Martin Spiess, who has been Professor of Biochemistry at the Biozentrum since 1986. The program includes a welcome speech as well as words of thanks by the…
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina recognizes Prof. Dirk Bumann from the Biozentrum, University of Basel, for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of infection biology. This year, Leopoldina…
Each year at the Dies academicus, the University of Basel awards honorary doctorates to deserving personalities from academia and society. On 29 November 2019, Prof. Randy Schekman was given the title of “Doctor honoris…
25 students from Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land secured one of the few places at the Basel Summer Science Academy 2024 at the Biozentrum. The program was established in 2019 to give high school students insight into the research…
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