New Urine Test for Prostate Cancer Screening
In the future, a simple urine test could detect early-stage prostate cancer. In this interview, the developers tell the story of their invention.
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A Step into a New Space Age
On board the private spaceflight mission Fram2, the Space Genomics experiment of the University of Zurich launched today. -
Efficient Development of Drugs with Fewer Mice
With a novel technology, around 25 antibodies can now be tested simultaneously in a single mouse. This should speed up the R&D pipeline for new drugs and hugely reduce the number of animals required. -
Promising Active Ingredient for Lupus Therapy
In lupus, the immune system attacks its own structures, causing inflammation and organ damage. A UZH study shows that natural active ingredient gluconolactone could offer a more targeted therapy. -
New Spin-Offs with Innovative Technology
Detecting prostate cancer at an early stage, keeping transplantation organs viable for longer, or a lab that fits on a chip: these six spin-offs from UZH are bringing research ideas to the market. -
CHF 2 Million for Neonatology Research
Professor Martin Wolf has been awarded one of the coveted SNSF Advanced Grants 2023. His project to develop an imaging device capable of detecting hypoxia in premature babies will receive CHF 1.9 million of funding. -
Researcher, Founder, Helper
Onur Boyman became a doctor because he wanted to help people. Now, having achieved a breakthrough with his research on autoimmune diseases, the UZH professor plans to bring a new therapy to market – and switch role from head of clinic to entrepreneur. -
Space for New Ideas, Courage and Ambitious Goals
The UZH Space Hub has relocated to Innovation Park Zurich. We sat down with Oliver Ullrich, the director of the Space Hub, to find out why space travel is about to experience a breakthrough and how we can pave the way for innovation. -
Getting Brilliant Ideas Market-Ready
Seven early-career researchers were awarded UZH Entrepreneur Fellowships this year. The jury was impressed by their innovative product ideas and motivation to bring them to market as entrepreneurs. -
Using Small Black Holes To Detect Big Black Holes
An international team of astrophysicists with participation of the University of Zurich proposes a novel method to detect pairs of the biggest black holes found at the centers of galaxies by analyzing gravitational waves generated by binaries of nearby small stellar black holes. -
An Incubator for Ideas
At UZH, students and researchers are learning to develop joint solutions to problems through challenge-based innovation. -
UZH Robotics Research Leads the Way
Davide Scaramuzza has been awarded the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. In the interview below, the professor of robotics and perception explains why a drone needs agility and low latency and which progress is needed to improve the autonomy of drones in the future. -
From Lab to Market
In the last year, eight new spin-offs were created at the University of Zurich to bring research-based ideas to market readiness. The new companies are developing innovative approaches for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, lead poisoning, blood cancer and endometriosis, the improvement of spinal surgery, better diagnostics in oral health, and simplification of satellite data analysis. -
A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid
A treatment for people suffering from Long Covid is yet to materialize. The only approach that has proven to be effective is for patients to manage their symptoms. Researchers at UZH have developed an innovative smartwatch application and app that help patients do this. The researchers have now been awarded this year’s UZH Postdoc Team Award. -
The Operating Room of the Future
The innovative OR-X at the Balgrist University Hospital is an exact copy of an operating room. Here, surgeons can train their skills and team up with researchers to develop computer-assisted surgical methods. This speeds up the translation of state-of-the-art surgical innovations into clinical practice and benefits patients. -
Robots with a Deft Touch
In future, multisensory surgical robots with sensors featuring visual, auditory and haptic functionality are expected to take on various individual steps during operations – quite autonomously – and support the surgeons providing treatment. Researchers from the University of Zurich are working on this, alongside clinicians, as part of the FAROS project. -
Predictions of the effect of drugs on individual cells are now possible
Experts from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich have used machine learning to jointly create a innovative method. This new approach can predict how individual cells react to specific treatments, offering hope for more accurate diagnoses and therapeutics. -
Highest Honor for UZH Researcher
Oliver Ullrich, Director of the UZH Space Hub and professor at the Institute of Anatomy, has been awarded the Life Sciences Award by the International Academy of Astronautics. The aerospace medicine expert is being recognized for his innovative research in space life sciences, a field he has been instrumental in establishing. -
AI Increases Precision in Plant Observation
Researchers at UZH have used big data, machine learning and field observations in the university’s experimental garden to show how plants respond to changes in the environment. -
Science Draws in the Crowds
20,000 to 30,000 visitors experienced science up close this weekend at Scientifica, Switzerland’s largest science festival. Some 1,000 researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich were on site to present their work.