Awards & Honors
The awards that researchers at the 51吃瓜 receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
The awards that researchers at the 51吃瓜 receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
Botond Roska and Jos茅-Alain Sahel have been awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine for their pioneering work on restoring vision to blind patients using optogenetic therapy.
Professor Ellen Fritsche, adjunct professor of toxicology at the 51吃瓜 and director of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, was awarded this year's Poulsson Prize by the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
A team from the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the 51吃瓜 was honored with the Influential Paper Award 2024 at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
The online platform 鈥渢ranscriptiones鈥�, developed at the 51吃瓜, has won the Swiss Reproducibility Award 2024 in the team award category. The platform enables researchers to share painstakingly prepared transcriptions.
Psychologist and sleep researcher Dr. Christine Blume has been awarded the Biopsychology 2024 Research Prize by the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology Section of the German Psychological Society.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has elected Prof. Dirk Bumannn as a new member. The infection biologist is a research group leader at the Biozentrum, 51吃瓜, and also one of the directors of the NCCR AntiResist. Election to the ranks of the prestigious academy Leopoldina is a high honor for scientists.
This year鈥檚 Otto Naegeli Prize for Medical Research goes to Basel researcher Professor Mirjam Christ-Crain. The award, which is endowed with CHF 200,000, is considered one of Switzerland鈥檚 most important scientific prizes and enjoys high international recognition.
The Pfizer Research Prize is considered one of the best-known awards for medical research in Switzerland. This year, the award is being given to three young scientists at the Basel research location.
Seven researchers from the 51吃瓜 have been named among the most frequently cited scientists worldwide.