ERC Synergy Grants for research projects by Professors Domenico Giardini and Jacob Corn
16.10.2019 – Two ETH Zurich projects and one with ETH involvement have been awarded one of the coveted ERC Synergy Grants.
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Insight into CRISPR-Cas genome editing
08.10.2019 – According to Professor Jacob Corn, we are standing on the threshold of major medical breakthroughs: thanks to advances in the field of genome editing, it may be possible in future to heal genetic diseases as easily as broken bones.
Foundations support ETH Week 2019
13.09.2019 – From 8 to 13 September 2019, 200 bachelor’s and master’s students from ETH Zurich addressed the topic of “Rethinking Mobility” as part of ETH Week. The Avina and Dätwyler Foundations supported ETH Week 2019 as sponsors.
Former Excellence Scholar receives ERC Starting Grant
09.09.2019 – Fifteen talented young researchers from ETH Zurich are each to receive an ERC Starting Grant, which is more than for any year previously.
Rössler laureate awarded Science Prize Marcel Benoist
06.09.2019 – Another award for Rössler prizewinner Nicola Spaldin. The Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich has been awarded the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her outstanding research into multiferroic materials. Her work has laid the foundations for new ultrafast and energy-efficient data storage technologies.
Video Portrait: Excellence scholar Paula Wulkop
12.08.2019 – Excellence Scholar Paula Wulkop studies Robotics. In the video she explains what motivates her most about her master projects and the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP).
Her algorithm is helping children with cerebral palsy
22.07.2019 – ETH doctoral student Rosa Visscher is working with clinicians to research better treatment for young patients with cerebral motor impairment. Her trump card: data science.
Chemist Maksym Kovalenko wins Rössler-Prize 2019
25.06.2019 – Maksym Kovalenko is being recognised for his research on bright nanoparticles with this year’s Rössler Prize, which carries an endowment of 200,000 Swiss francs in research funding and is traditionally awarded at the Thanks Giving event of the ETH Foundation.
Video portrait: Excellence scholar Simon Hertlein
07.06.2019 – Excellence Scholar Simon Eric Hertlein studies physics and explains what the recognition through the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) means to him and what fascinates him the most about his project.
New cryo-electron microscopy professorship and new equipment
23.05.2019 – The ETH Board has appointed Martin Pilhofer Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy with effect from 1 June 2019. Pilhofer previously held the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology’s Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at ETH Zurich.