News
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Open position at the Institute of Anatomy
We are currently advertising a Master's thesis project at the Institute of Anatomy.
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Goldene Lehr-Lorbeere for Prof. Caroline Maake
The special price for excellence in teaching at the UZH was awarded to Prof. Caroline Maake at the Tag der Lehre 2019.
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National MD-PhD scholarship for Kathi Ging, MD
We are very proud to announce that Kathi Ging received one of the highly competitive MD-PhD scholarships funded by SAMS and SNF.
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UZH Forschungskredit 2019 for two of our staff members
We congratulate Johanna Diener and Michał Sobecki on the reception of an UZH Forschungskredit.
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Kelli Grand receives best presentation award
We are happy to announce that Kelli Grand's talk at the European Amphibian Club 2019 has been awarded.
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The Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker award 2018 goes to Prof. Lukas Sommer
This year’s award of the Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker Foundation honors Prof. Lukas Sommer for his huge contribution to the field of melanoma research.
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Susan Ghazi received predoctoral excellence in research award
We congratulate Susan Ghazi, PhD candidate, who has been selected for the Predoctoral Excellence in Reneal Research Award of the American Physiological Society.
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"Yin Yang 1 Orchestrates a Metabolic Program Required for Both Neural Crest Development and Melanoma Formation" in Cell Stem Cell
New publication of the research group of Prof. Lukas Sommer.
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Ewelina Krzywińska, PhD, receives cancer research award
We congratulate Ewelina Krzywińska, PhD, who has been selected for the Ida de Pottère-Leupold and Dr. iur. Erik de Pottère Cancer Research Award 2019.
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New research plan of Prof. Christian Stockmann receives funding
Congratulations to Prof. Christian Stockmann who received funding by the NCCR Kidney.CH research network for a new project.
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Appointment of Prof. Andrew Hall as associate professor ad personam
We congratulate Prof. Andrew Hall to his new appointment as associate professor ad personam at the University of Zurich
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Prof. Oliver Ullrich appointed as honorary professor
Congratulations to Prof. Oliver Ullrich
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Swiss Cancer League & Swiss Cancer Research funding for Prof. Christian Stockmann
Congratulations to Prof. Christian Stockmann who received new funding by the Swiss Cancer League & Swiss Cancer Research foundation to elucidate the role of the hypoxic response for Natural Killer (NK) cell performance and to provide a novel therapeutic paradigm for the management of cancer.
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"Rapid coupling between gravitational forces and the transcriptome in human myelomonocytic U937 cells" in Scientific Reports
New publication of the research group of Prof. Oliver Ullrich.
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NASA visit at UZH
UZH welcomes Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate
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"EZH2-mediated primary cilium deconstruction drives metastatic melanoma formation" in Cancer Cell.
New publication of the research group of Prof. Lukas Sommer.
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NCCR Kidney.CH will enter its third phase
The National Center of Competence in Research Kidney.CH just had its 8th site visit by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will enter its third phase of funding in August 2018.
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First take off at the UZH space hub
The UZH space hub, headed by Prof. Oliver Ullrich, launched his first research flight campaign.
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Dr. Joana Delgado Martins received award at the Experimental Biology meeting 2018
Dr. Joana Delgado Martins, postdoc fellow in the group of Prof. Andrew Hall, received the 2018 Renal Section Postdoctoral Excellence in Research Award for her abstract presented at the Experimental Biology meeting 2018 in San Diego.
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Prof. Christian Stockmann receives new SNF project grant
Congratulations to Prof. Christian Stockmann who received an SNF grant to study the potential of Natural Killer cells as a novel therapeutic target in organ fibrosis and cancer.
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"Hier bringen wir die Forschung zum Fliegen"
Opening of the innovation park Zurich
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"Injury-activated glial cells promote wound healing of the adult skin in mice" in Nature Communications.
New publication of the research group of Prof. Lukas Sommer.
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"Loss of HIF-1α in natural killer cells inhibits tumour growth by stimulating non-productive angiogenesis" in Nature Communications.
New publication of the research group of Prof. Christian Stockmann.
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"Automated dissection of permanent effects of hippocampal or prefrontal lesions on performance at spatial, working memory and circadian timing tasks of C57BL/6 mice in IntelliCage" in Behavioural Brain Research.
New publication of the research group of Prof. David P. Wolfer.
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Numbers of medical students increase
Increased number of medical students starting in fall semester 2017.
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"Similar reliability and equivalent performance of female and male mice in the open field and water-maze place navigation task" in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.
New publication of the research group of Prof. David P. Wolfer.
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"The histone methyltransferase Ezh2 controls mechanisms of adaptive resistance to tumor immunotherapy" in Cell Reports.
New publication of the research group of Prof. Lukas Sommer.
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Prof. Oliver Ullrich appointed as "BIT Adjunct Professor"
Congratulations to Prof. Oliver Ullrich
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QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017: UZH Anatomy and Physiology are #20
We are happy to announce that the UZH Institute of Anatomy and Institute of Physiology took place number 20 in the newly introduced special subject Anatomy & Physiology in the recently published QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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"Rapid adaptation to microgravity in mammalian macrophage cells" in Science Reports
New publication of the research group of Prof. Oliver Ullrich
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Prof. Maake and Dr. Vich receive Teaching Fund UZH 2016
Prof. Caroline Maake and Dr. Magdalena Vich received funding for their project: Development of a web application (app) for the practical course “Clinical Anatomy”.
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SGN-SSN Publication Award 2016 goes to Dr. Todkar
Our previous postdoctoral fellow Dr. Abhijeet Todkar received the 2016 SGN-SSN Publication Award.
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SKINTEGRITY - University Medicine Zurich launched new flagship project
Prof. Lukas Sommer is involved in the consortium.
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Elections of the general assembly of the German Society of Aerospace Medicine
Congratulations to Prof. Ullrich and Dr. Cora Thiel!
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78th annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology
Congratulations to Prof. Lukas Sommer and Dr. Yuya Sugano!
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UZH will qualify more medical doctors
The government council of the canton of Zurich decided to increase the number of bachelor students by 72 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich starting in the fall semester 2017/18.