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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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09.11.2023 Operating Room X (OR-X)

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.

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07.11.2023 Surgical Robots

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.

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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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22.09.2023 Evolutionary Biology

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.

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30.08.2023 Robotics

Challenge Accepted: High-speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

EIn a milestone for artificial intelligence (AI), the AI system “Swift”, designed by UZH researchers, has beaten the world champions in drone racing – a result that seemed unattainable just a few years ago. The AI-piloted drone was trained in a simulated environment.

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14.07.2023 Pharma Research

AI Brings Hope for Patients with Lyosomal Storage Disease

Advances in the use of Big Data, learning algorithms and powerful computers improve research into serious metabolic disease.

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13.07.2023 Physics

New Superconductors Can Be Built Atom by Atom

The naturally occurring topology of atoms can make it difficult to create new physical effects. One atom at a time, researchers have now successfully designed new states of matter.

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05.07.2023 Innovative Teams

Passion Aplenty

Turning an exciting idea into a successful start-up firm requires vision, a lot of knowhow and good planning. But most of all, it requires different people who work together really well.

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03.07.2023 Us and ChatGPT

“Like a Swiss army knife”

ChatGPT is overrated as artificial intelligence and underrated as a language model, linguist Noah Bubenhofer says. He, philosopher Hans-Johann Glock, and computational linguist Rico Sennrich discuss how chatbots could change science, universities, and everyday work in the interview below.

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31.03.2023 Neuroscience

Scallop Eyes as Inspiration for New Microscope Pbjectives

Neuroscientists have developed new objectives that enable high-resolution imaging of tissues and organs in a much wider variety of immersion media than with conventional microscope lenses.

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22.03.2023 UZH Teaching Fund – Part 3: Engaged Teaching

Pitch Perfect

How do interdisciplinary teams develop ideas that are in touch with the world outside of university? In various innovation courses at UZH, students learn how they can translate their ideas into business solutions – including a reality check by industry experts.

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09.03.2023 LINA testing facility

Flying Toward the Future

A new testing facility at Dübendorf Airport enables researchers to develop autonomous systems such as drones from idea to marketable product. The facility was conceived thanks to the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions.

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16.02.2023 Medicine

Unlocking the Data Treasure Chest

The LOOP Zurich research center is creating a central platform to exchange health data between UZH, ETH Zurich and the four university hospitals in Zurich, making it possible to quickly and easily use this information for the benefit of patients.

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26.01.2023 Digital Society Initiative

UZH to Expand Digital Expertise

UZH is creating seven new assistant professorships and stepping up its research and teaching activities in the field of digital transformation. This brings the total number of professorships created as part of the Digital Society Initiative to over 30.

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17.01.2023 In Memoriam

Swimming Against the Current

In 1986, UZH physicist and IBM Fellow K. Alex Müller and J. Georg Bednorz revolutionized solid-state physics with the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductor. In the following year, 1987, the two researchers were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. K. Alex Müller has now died in Zurich at the age of 95.

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09.01.2023 UZH Spin-Offs in 2022

Entrepreneurial Milestones in Life Sciences

Three new spin-offs were founded at UZH in 2022, transferring scientific findings into industry practice. The business ventures explore new perspectives in the fight against cancer, space factories to produce human tissue, and ways to accelerate the development of novel drugs.

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19.10.2022 Space Research

A Factory in Outer Space

It’s possible to produce things in orbit that wouldn’t be possible on Earth, says Oliver Ullrich. We sat down with the biochemist and space physician to learn more about weightless cells, the UZH Space Hub, and humans as an interplanetary species.

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05.10.2022 Parabolic Flights

New Flight Platform Increases Flexibility in Research

The 6th Swiss Parabolic Flight Campaign, run by the UZH Space Hub and the Swiss Sky Lab Foundation, takes place at the Air Base Dübendorf from 3 to 14 October. It is the first time a campaign is featuring a Cessna Citation II research aircraft, operated by the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR). The airplane will carry four research projects into weightlessness.

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22.09.2022 10 years of the UZH Foundation

Fueling New Ideas

For 10 years, the UZH Foundation has been successfully raising funds for research, teaching and innovation – including for the Digital Entrepreneur Fellowship.

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