Ten SNSF Starting Grants for UZH Researchers
The grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation enable researchers to carry out their own projects and lead a research team in Switzerland.
In the 2025 call for proposals, 10 researchers from UZH secured funding following a competitive evaluation process. Of the funded projects, three are at the Faculty of Medicine, three are based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, two are at the Faculty of Science and one at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics. In total, the 10 UZH projects have been awarded CHF 16.7 million in funding.
SNSF Starting Grants represent the foundation’s highest level of career funding. A total of 425 applications were evaluated this year, and 41 were awarded funding. The total funding amounts to CHF 70.4 million.
The following UZH researchers have won an SNSF Starting Grant:
| Name | Institut | Projekttitel | Förderbetrag |
| Sebastian Shaw | Institut für Parasitologie Vetsuisse-Fakultät Universität Zürich | The Genetic Basis of Persistence and Virulence in Cryptosporidium | 1'913'967 |
| Joana Graca Marques | Molecular Mechanisms of Disease University of Zurich | Functional single cell atlas of epigenetic plasticity in cancer | 1'800'460 |
| Patrick Rodrigues | Institut für Experimentelle Immunologie Universität Zürich | Deciphering Transcriptional Regulation and Functional Dynamics of Dendritic Cell Subsets in Health and Disease | 1'794'465 |
| Burcu Tepekule Müller | Abteilung für Infektionskrankheiten Medizinische Poliklinik Universitätsspital Zürich | Restoring Homeostasis: Unravelling the mechanisms of microbiome-driven immunological dysregulation to prevent disease progression | 1'905'066 |
| Helena Hof | Asien-Orient-Institut Abteilung Indologie Universität Zürich | Provisional Futures: Migrants as wanted workers, yet temporary residents | 1'913'115 |
| Theresa V. Rohm | Klinik für Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Klinische Ernährung Universitätsspital Zürich | Therapeutic Impact of Macrophage Exosomal miRNAs on Insulin Sensitivity and Inflammation | 1'845'598 |
| Tabea Hässler | Applied Team Research Department of Psychology University of Zurich | Understanding and Tackling Health Disparities in LGBTIQ+ Communities Across the Globe | 1'829'098 |
| Tobias Weiss | Department of Quantitative Biomedicine Zürich Universität | Decode the functional heterogeneity of brain tumors for next-generation therapies and precision diagnostics | 1'730'995 |
| Giorgia Ramponi | Institut für Informatik Universität Zürich | Multi-agent learning from demonstrations and human-feedback | 1'000'000 |
| Jing Zeng | Department of Communication & Media Research Universität Zürich | VIZTOX: Visual Toxicity in the Digital Platform Age | 1'107'724 |