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Memberships The Biozentrum Alumni offers two types of memberships: The Standard Membership and a Trial Membership for new graduates. The Biozentrum Alumni is a community of all those who have studied, carried out research,…


Venture Kick support for Biozentrum spin-off Aukera Therapeutics

It was only at the beginning of the year that the Biozentrum spin-off Aukera Therapeutics qualified for the BaseLaunch Accelerator program. Now the two young entrepreneurs Dr. Stefan Imseng and Dr. Dritan Liko can add…


Registration & Guidelines

How to become a user of the BioEM Electron Microscopy Laboratory? The BioEM Electron Microscope Facility welcomes researchers of the Biozentrum and the wider University of Basel community. External researchers, from academia…


Two SNSF Ambizione Fellowships for the Biozentrum

The new Ambizione fellow Dr. Florent Waltz , project leader in Prof. Ben Engel’s team, will study the molecular architecture of mitochondria and their interaction with chloroplasts, the site of photosynthesis, in more…


Damaged but not defeated: Bacteria use nano-spearguns to retaliate against attacks

In the world of microbes, peaceful coexistence goes hand in hand with fierce competition for nutrients and space. Certain bacteria outcompete rivals and fend off attackers by injecting them with a lethal cocktail using tiny,…


Alumni Day 2023

Biozentrum World Alumni Day, June 23, 2023 Dear Biozentrum Alumni, Do you ever wonder what your former Biozentrum colleagues and friends are up to? What is happening at the Biozentrum now? What does the new building look…


Congenital muscle weakness: Muscles fail to regenerate

Roughly eight in every million children are born with a particularly severe form of muscle weakness known as LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy. In Switzerland, 18 cases are currently known. This rare hereditary disease is…


Sanofi-Institut Pasteur International Junior Award for Marek Basler

The distinguished jury announced that Prof. Marek Basler from the Biozentrum, University of Basel, will receive the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur International Junior Award this year together with Prof. Ido Amit, Weizmann…


Novel strategies for treating bacterial infections without antibiotics

Novel strategies for treating bacterial infections without antibiotics Murphy Lam Yim Wan, Ines Ambite, Thi Hien Tran, Shahram Ahmadi, Atefeh Nazari, Arunima Chaudhuri, Farhan Haq, Christian Krintel, Björn Wullt, Florian…


Who am I? How cells find their identity

The origin of every cell of our body is a single cell, the fertilized egg. On the way to become a specialized cell, whether blood, heart or nerve cells, its descendants follow a genetic program. This program determines the…