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18.12.2025 UZH 3R Award 2025

Honing Anesthesia Techniques Using Silicone Animal Models

Fabiola Jörger received the UZH 3R Award 2025 for her practical training in clinical procedures using silicone animal models. The second prize goes to Markus Seeger and Johannes vom Berg for developing flycode technology.

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09.12.2025 ERC Consolidator Grants

Nine Research Groups Win ERC Funding

Amid the toughest competition to date, UZH researchers emerged remarkably strong, winning major support for ambitious projects across disciplines.

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04.12.2025 Cancer Research

Deciphering the Immune System Side by Side

For their research that has helped develop immunotherapies to combat various forms of cancer, Gordon Freeman and Arlene Sharpe are the laureates of the Gretener-Thürlemann Prize.

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19.11.2025 Research Funding

Ten SNSF Starting Grants for UZH Researchers

Ten UZH researchers have received a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for projects that explore topics ranging from immune cells to visual toxicity.

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13.11.2025 Biomedical Ethics

Embedding Ethics in the Medical Mainstream

For the past 20 years, Nikola Biller-Andorno and her team have used innovative methods to get medical students to engage with ethical questions.

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06.11.2025 Cell Research

Biochemist Ohad Medalia Receives Synergy Grant

What exactly happens during cell division? UZH biochemist Ohad Medalia has secured an ERC Synergy Grant to find out.

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04.11.2025 Tag der Lehre

Semester Awards for 68 Students

The theme of this year’s Tag der Lehre was Celebrating Interdisciplinarity. As well as providing a platform for sharing best practices, the event also recognized students’ outstanding academic achievements.

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23.10.2025 Research Award

Plant Biologist Receives Award for Immune Research

Phytobiologist Jana Ordon researches plant immune responses. She has just received a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award for her work.

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17.09.2025 Koetser-Prize 2025

Encoding Experiences in the Brain

Rosa Cossart receives the Koetser-Prize for her work on brain development and its impact on adult brain function.

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16.09.2025 Latsis Prize

“Headwinds have been a constant presence in my work”

Legal scholar Saskia Stucki, recipient of this year’s Swiss Science Prize Latsis, discusses animal rights and legal developments in the Global South.

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19.06.2025 ERC Advanced Grant

The Downside of Part-Time Work

With her ERC Advanced Grant the UZH labor geographer Karin Schwiter plans to study the problem of underemployment in Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands.

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21.05.2025 Dies academicus

Advocating Bold Research in Turbulent Times

UZH celebrated its 192nd birthday and presented 26 honors at this year’s Dies academicus. Councilor of States Tiana Angelina Moser delivered the keynote address and spoke about the relationship between science and politics.

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19.05.2025 Teaching Award

“I want to rouse enthusiasm”

Biodiversity expert Florian Altermatt is the recipient of this year’s UZH Teaching Award. In the portrait below, he tells why he makes students count birds on Lake Zurich and divulges what that has to do with Pokémon.

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16.05.2025 Dies academicus 2025

UZH Awards Eight Honorary Doctorates

The University of Zurich has awarded honorary doctorates to historian Amy Nelson Burnett, legal philosopher Elisabeth Holzleithner, academic economist Laura Starks, linguist Elisabeth Gülich, conservationist Paula Kahumbu, theologian Herman Johan Selderhuis, banking expert Christian Rahn and horse trainer Fredy Knie Jr.

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06.05.2025 Semester Award

Saving Miles

Rocco Bagutti analyzed researchers’ travel behavior for his Master’s thesis. His study has been recognized with a semester award.

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05.05.2025 New research award

500,000 Francs for Pioneering Research

The Gretener-Thürlemann Prize at the University of Zurich is awarded in its first year to researchers in the field of translational/clinical medicine.

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14.04.2025 Semester Awards

Towards a Quicker Diagnosis

Medical student Marlene Münger devoted her Master’s thesis to the topic of diagnosing congenital immune deficiencies. She received a semester award for her achievement.

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10.04.2025 Particle Physics

Major Award for CERN Experiments

Four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. UZH researchers are significantly involved in two of the prize-winning experiments.

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27.03.2025 iGEM-Award

Students Develop Bacterium to Protect Plants

Students at UZH developed a bacterium that can protect plants from negative environmental influences – and won the prize for Best Sustainable Development Impact at the international iGEM competition for synthetic biology.

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25.03.2025 Semester Awards

Conceptualizing the Virgin Mary

Maria 1.0 is an initiative run by Catholic women who promote traditional female roles in the Church – roles shaped by faith. Alexandra Probst analyzed the initiative in a term paper.

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