Institute of Pharmacology

The Institute is involved in university teaching in pharmacology and immunology. It conducts interdisciplinary research on the pathophysiological processes that contribute to inflammation and cancer. It aims to find new therapeutic approaches and works closely with the clinics and research facilities of the Inselspital.

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Profile:

  • Teaching students of medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, biomedicine, and biology as well as graduate students at the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)
  • Five research groups
  • Investigation of pathophysiological processes that contribute to inflammation and tumor diseases
  • Aim: Discovering new drug targets; developing and validating new drugs in preclinical models

External Partners:

Institutes of Biochemistry, Experimental Immunology and Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, University Hospital and Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Swiss EoE Research Group, Olten, Switzerland, University Kazan, Russia, Centre de Recherche CIMI, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Grants:

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (grant No. 320030_219451 / 1; 310030_219605; 310030_184816; 310030_184757/1; 310030-201199; 310030-212418; 310030E_205559 / 1 (co-applicant)
  • Swiss Cancer League KFS-4958-02-2020; KFS-515-08-2020
  • Bürgi-Fonds
  • Novartis Foundation for Biological-Medical Research
  • Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) Grant
  • Innosuisse-Swiss Innovation Agency #40922.1 IP-LS; #52202.1 IP-LS (co-applicant)
  • Russian Government Program (075-15.2021-600)
  • China Scholarship Council