Celebrating Women in Science Science drives innovation, tackles global challenges, and shapes the future — but to reach its full potential, it needs diverse perspectives. Despite progress, a significant gender gap remains in…

Each year, EMBO selects some of the very best junior life science researchers in Europe to join the Young Investigator Program. With her nomination, Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi becomes a member of a high-ranking network of…

Diabetes is a medical condition in which the body is unable to keep blood sugar in a healthy range. Normally, the pancreas produces sufficient insulin to regulate the blood sugar level and maintain homeostasis. However, in…

ARTIDIS AG announced the successful completion of its clinical study “NANO”, which was performed to evaluate the utility and the sensitivity of a nanomechanical biomarker, developed by ARTIDIS, for breast cancer diagnosis.…

T3 Pharmaceuticals is one of top five startup companies selected by the W.A. de Vigier Foundation. The winning companies were selected from a record number of 256 applications in a multi-step process. At the award ceremony…

On July 23, 2017, Prof. Björn Burmann, a recent member of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has received the Anatole Abragam Prize at the ISMAR Conference 2017 in Canada, together with Dr. Loren Andreas from the Max…

For the high school students in Basel, July is Summer Holiday time. But instead of chilling and swimming in the Rhine, sixteen selected gymnasium students will discover who and what frolics about in the river during their…

Dr. Katarzyna Buczak LC-MS specialist at the Proteomics Core Facility What’s your job at the Biozentrum? I work as a scientist in the Proteomics Core Facility. What we do there is help people perform their experiments using…

Master of Science in Physics of Life The Master's degree program in Physics of Life at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel provides training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics,…

Central Mechanical Workshop The requirements for lab apparatus are as diverse as the research topics at the Biozentrum. For this reason, you will find a whole range of non-commercially available devices and installations…