The Biozentrum is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021. To properly mark the occasion, the 73-meter-high new building was dedicated on Tuesday. Eight years after breaking ground and right on time for the beginning of the…

Michael N. Hall receives the Balzan Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate cell growth and ageing. Michael Hall discovered two proteins, TOR1 and TOR2, which…

CV of Prof. Jan Pieter Abrahams ORCID 0000-0001-8216-1868 Nationality : Dutch Positions: Since 2015 Professor, Biozentrum 1997 – 2015 Professor, Universiteit Leiden 1992 – 1997 Staff scientist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular…

Hall of fame Name Position Moved to Pauline Crausaz MSc student SDS Schweiz Seraina Eigenmann MSc student Merck Kazuki Nosho Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo Takuya Ohmura Postdoc Assistant Professor,…

CV of Prof. Dr. Jean Pieters ORCID 0000-0002-5284-9757 Nationality: Dutch Positions: Since 2002 Professor of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland 2000 – 2002 Permanent Member, Basel Institute for…

Testimonials Participants of the Biozentrum Research Summer give insights into their experiences at the Biozentrum. Jordi Lagares Mir, Instituto Químico de Sarriá, Spain Fighting bacterial antibiotic resistance is a major…

Prof. Dr. Petr Broz 2013 − 2017 I Professor of Infection Biology Petr Broz studied molecular biology at the University of Basel and completed his PhD under supervision of Prof. em. Guy Cornelis. He subsequently worked for…

Prof. Dr. Clemens Cabernard 2011 − 2016 I Professor of Cell Biology Clemens Cabernard studied molecular biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and graduated as a PhD in Developmental Biology under the…

Torsten Schwede, a current member of the President’s Board of the University, is set to lead one of Switzerland's most important academic bodies. The chemist heads a research group for structural bioinformatics at the…

Press release of the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft The governments of the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, represented by Conradin Cramer, Hans-Peter Wessels, Monica Gschwind and Isaac Reber, handed…