Archive Awards 2023

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• 30.11.2023 UZH Postdoc Team Award

  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.

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• 22.11.2023 Research Funding

  UZH Researchers Land Grants Worth Over CHF 15 Million

  The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is backing 10 projects at the University of Zurich with Starting Grants totaling more than CHF 15 million.

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• 02.11.2023 Tag der Lehre 2023

  “Learning from one another”

  The motto of this year’s Tag der Lehre was “inspire(d) minds”. Opportunities to get inspired by swapping experiences and sharing views with colleagues from the UZH teaching community were plentiful. The focus of the day was on the role of AI and interdisciplinary approaches in teaching at UZH.

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• 11.10.2023 UZH 3R Award

  Award-Winning 3R Research Reduces Animal Experiments

  UZH is developing alternative methods to animal experiments in line with the 3Rs principle. To highlight outstanding achievements of its members in the field of 3Rs, the university has introduced the UZH 3R Award, which has now gone to Giuseppe Esposito and Melanie Generali.

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• 02.10.2023 Oliver Ullrich Honored

  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.

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• 18.09.2023 Koetser Award 2023

  Encoding Memories in the Brain – Sheena Josselyn Wins Koetser Award 2023

  For her outstanding discoveries of mechanisms underlying learning and memory, Sheena Josselyn was awarded the 2023 Koetser award.

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• 17.05.2023

  Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO

  The Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives in Zurich have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. The University of Zurich will be working with both institutions to promote the academic study of the collections.

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• 21.04.2023 1 Million for Chemistry Project

  Boost for Sustainable Use of Resources

  Initial funding of 1 million: thanks to the Werner Siemens-Stiftung, UZH chemistry professors Greta Patzke, David Tilley, Stefan Seeger and Kathrin Fenner and their teams will be able to develop their project idea for a research into technologies for sustainable resource use. If successful, 100 million and the creation of a new WSS research center awaits.

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• 06.04.2023 FAN Awards

  Heart Attacks, Science Fiction and Lessons from Organic Agriculture

  Three UZH junior researchers are honored with a FAN Award for their original work: Florian Wenzl for his research on personalized heart attack treatment, Jessica Imbach for her study of Chinese science fiction and Emilio Dal Re for revealing the unintended consequences of organic agriculture.

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• 16.01.2023 UZH Postdoc Team Award

  Checking the Pulse of Society

  The newly established Postdoc Team Award allows UZH to recognize outstanding interdisciplinary research. The inaugural award has gone to two teams, both of which are developing innovative approaches in healthcare research, such as linking pupil size to stress resilience or exploring what tweets can reveal about our mental health.

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