"The Biozentrum is an institute that has always attracted good researchers. However, with the Biozentrum PhD Fellowships program, we have a unique tool to also actively recruit outstanding, international junior scientist,"…

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1933, Max Burger studied medicine at the University of Zurich. After practicing medicine for several years, he moved his focus to basic research and graduated in biochemistry at Washington…

The Biozentrum organizes a symposium for its employees and students annually. This provides an insight into other areas of research, as well as an overview of the many projects being carried out. Furthermore, the symposium…

CV of Prof. Dr. Knut Drescher ORCID 0000-0002-7340-2444 Google Scholar Google Scholar Nationality : German Positions: Since 2021 Associate Professor at the Biozentrum 2015 - 2021 Professor of Biophysics, Philipps-Universität…

A3: New Approaches to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance – 14466 (1 hr/week; 1 CP; Fall 2024) Urs Jena l , Marek Basler, Dirk Bumann, Christoph Dehio, Médéric Diard, Knut Drescher This lecture series was redesigned in the scope of…

The goal of the ERC Advanced Grants is to support established, leading principal investigators to pursue a groundbreaking and high-risk project. As all ERC grants, they are in high demand and therefore very competitive. This…

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…

At the end of 2019, physicians in Wuhan, China, described a cluster of pneumonia associated with an unknown virus. Only two weeks later scientists had determined that the pathogen is a new type of coronavirus that is related…

Support for your Research The Research IT Technology Platform was created in 2007 to extend IT support at the Biozentrum beyond standard IT workplace solutions. Integrating and completing existing services, we provide…

Jadiel Wasson, Postdoc, Group Mango What is your research about? My research centers around understanding how different types of environmental inputs have intergenerational effects in a process known as epigenetic…