Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine conduct excellent research and are very successful in acquiring competitively awarded external funding. National and international funding bodies only support the best project proposals, which is why we are proud that we raised over CHF 90 million in third-party funding in 2022. Below you will find an overview of the current externally funded projects.
Through its Framework Programmes, the EU promotes research and innovation. Different funding schemes are available.
SHOXY – Tracing novel androgen pathways: deciphering the role of 16α-hydroxylation in human fetal biology PI: Michael Grössl (Department of Nephrology and Hypertension) Duration: 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2023
nAChRs-CRC-PCa-IF-RI – Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors nAChRs in Prostate and Colon Cell Cancer: pharmacology, mechanism, cellular (mal)function PI: Christine Peinelt (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine) Duration: 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2024
Disc4All – Training network to advance integrated computational simulations in translational medicine, applied to intervertebral disc degeneration Co-PI: Benjamin Gantenbein (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology) Duration: 01.11.2020 – 31.10.2024
SAND – Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration Co-PI: Smita Saxena (Department of Neurology) Duration: 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2024
Bio2Brain – Nose-to-Brain Delivery of Biopharmaceutics for the therapy of central nervous system diseases: A design-based approach for efficient drug delivery systems Co-PI: Andrew Chan (Department of Neurology) Duration: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2024
OBERON – Opto-Biomechanical Eye Research Network Co-PI: Sabine Kling (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research) Duration: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2024
OncoProTools – Protease-guided tumor targeting tools to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment Partner: Axel Romiger (Departement of Nuclear Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2026
Tools4Teams – Research Training to Design and Implement Tools Supporting Safe Teamwork in Healthcare Partner: Guido Beldi (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.03.2023 – 28.02.2027
Regenerate-IT – Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biology Partner: Nadia Mercader (Institute of Anatomy) Duration: 01.03.2023 – 28.02.2027
HHMM-Neonates – Development of Healthy Host Microbial Mutualism in Early Life PI: Andrew Macpherson (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2017 - 31.08.2023
TransReg - Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of cardiac regenerative capacity in the zebrafish PI: Nadia Mercader (Institute of Anatomy) Duration: 01.08.2019 – 31.07.2024
WePredict – Microbiota and immune responses at weaning predict the susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases in adulthood PI: Ziad Al Nabhani (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2026
HBP SGA3 – Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 3 Co-PI: Walter Senn (Department of Physiology) Duration: 01.04.2020 – 30.09.2023
DIGIPREDICT – Edge AI-deployed DIGItal Twins for PREDICTing disease progression and need for early intervention in infectious and cardiovascular diseases beyond COVID-19 Co-PI: Wolf Hautz (Department of Emergency Medicine) Duration: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2024
IntelliLung – Intelligent Lung Support for Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Intensive Care Unit Partner: Martin Faltys (Department of Intensive Care Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2027
ESCAPE – Efficient and rapidly SCAlable EU-wide evidence-driven Pandemic response plans through dynamic Epidemic data assimilation Partner: Nicola Low (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2026
MELISSA – Mobile Artificial Intelligence Solution for Diabetes Adaptive Care Partner: Stavroula Mougiakakou (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research) Duration: 01.06.2022 – 31.05.2026
BE-SAFE – Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce BEnzodiazepine and sedative-hypnotic use to improve patient SAFEty and quality of care Partner: Nicolas Rodondi (Institute of Primary Health Care) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2027
GEYEDANCE – AI guidance for robot-assisted eye surgery Partner: Raphael Sznitman (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025
LITMUS – Liver Investigation: Testing Marker Utility in Steatohepatitis Co-PI: Jean-François Dufour (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.11.2017 – 31.10.2023
iLIVE – Living well, dying well. A research programme to support living until the end Co-PI: Steffen Eychmüller (Department of Radiation Oncology) Duration: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2023
VACCELERATE – European Corona Vaccine Trial Accelerator Platform Co-PI: Sven Trelle (Clinical Trial Unit Bern) Duration: 28.01.2021 – 27.01.2024
TransBioLine – Translational Safety Biomarker Pipeline (TransBioLine): Enabling development and implementation of novel safety biomarkers in clinical trials and diagnosis of disease Co-PI: Guido Stirnimann (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2024
CORE-MD – Coordinating Research and Evidence for Medical Devices Co-PI: Stephan Windecker (Department of Cardiology) Duration: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
ConcePTION – Building an ecosystem for better monitoring and communicating of medication safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding: validated and regulatory endorsed workflows for fast, optimised evidence generation Co-PI: Alice Panchaud (Institute of Primary Health Care) Duration: 01.04.2019 – 31.03.2024
iPSpine – Induced pluripotent stem cell-based therapy for spinal regeneration Co-PI: Benjamin Gantenbein (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research) Duration: 01.01.2019 – 30.06.2024
HTx – Next Generation Health Technology Assessment to support patient-centred, societally oriented, real-time decision-making on access and reimbursement for health technologies throughout Europe Co-PI: Georgia Salanti (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.01.2019 – 30.06.2024
REANIMA – New-generation cardiac therapeutic strategies directed to the activation of endogenous regenerative mechanisms Co-PI: Nadia Mercader Huber (Institute of Anatomy) Duration: 01.01.2020 – 30.06.2025
DIAMONDS – Diagnosis and Management of Febrile Illness using RNA Personalised Molecular Signature Diagnosis Co-PI: Philip Agyemann (Department of Pediatrics) Duration: 01.01.2020 – 30.06.2025
STOPSTORM – A Prospective European Validation Cohort for Stereotactic Therapy of Re-Entrant Tachycardia Co-PI: Olgun Eliçin (Department of Radiation Oncology) Duration: 01.05.2021 – 30.04.2027
MED1stMR – Medical First Responder Training using a Mixed Reality Approach featuring haptic feedback for enhanced realism Co-PI: Thomas Sauter (Department of Emergency Medicine) Duration: 01.06.2021 – 31.05.2024
RadoNorm – Towards effective radiation protection based on improved scientific evidence and social considerations - focus on radon and NORM Co-PI: Ben Spycher (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2020 – 31.08.2025
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It is the largest biomedical research funding agency in the world.
IeDEA-SA – International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS Southern Africa Co-PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.07.2006 - 30.04.2026
DTG-RESIST – HIV-1 subtype, specific drug resistance in patients failing Dolutegravir-based 1st, 2nd or 3rd line regimens: the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2024
Prostate SPOREs – Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) SPORE in Prostate Cancer Co-PI: Mark Rubin (Department for BioMedical Research)
An examination of psychomotor disturbance in current and remitted MDD: An RDoC Study Co-PI: Sebastian Walther (University Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy) Duration: 08.04.2019 - 31.03.2024
SHAPE – Noninvasive Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation of Portal Hypertension PI: Annalisa Berzigotti (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine) Duration: 01.04.2013 - 30.04.2026
LQTS-PUFA – Polyunsaturated fatty acids as anti-arrhythmic agents PI: Katja Odening (Department of Cardiology) Duration: 10.01.2022 - 31.03.2025
ENIGMA Parkinson's Initiative: A Global Initiative for Parkinson's Disease PI: Roland Wiest (University Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology) Duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2026
The Role of CRIPTO Signaling in Lethal Prostate Cancer PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department of Urology)
In Vivo and Ex Vivo Models to Study Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury, Endothelial Cell Protection, and Limb Preservation in a Prolonged Field Care Scenario PI: Robert Rieben (Department for BioMedical Research)
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds research in all scientific disciplines under a mandate from the Swiss Federal Government.
From the nose to the lungs: the importance of upper respiratory disease in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia PI: Myrofora Goutaki (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2023
Mapping and Modeling of Deep Brain Stimulation PI: Thuy Anh Khoa Nguyen (Department of Neurosurgery) Duration: 01.12.2019 - 30.11.2023
Evolutionary dynamics of bacteria in the intestines of IBD patients PI: Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Department for BioMedical Researc) Duration: 01.09.2020 - 31.08.2024
ToolCAP: Novel tools to improve primary-care management of pediatric community-acquired pneumonia - an impact-based diagnostic study in Tanzania PI: Kristina Keitel (Department of Paediatrics) Duration: 01.07.2021 - 30.06.2025
Pathways from mental disorders to burden of disease: Causal mediation analysis of big data from South Africa PI: Andreas Haas (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.07.2021 - 30.06.2025
Adaptive neuromodulation in movement disorders - a precision medicine approach PI: Gerd Tinkhauser (Department of Neurology) Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025
Impacts of an INtervention TO increase MOBility in older hospitalised medical patients (INTOMOB): a cluster randomised controlled trial PI: Carole Elodie Aubert (Department of General Internal Medicine) Duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026
DEciphering the Enigma of Postprandial Hyperinsulinaemic Hypoglycaemia after Bariatric Surgery (The DEEP Project) PI: Lia Bally (Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism) Duration: 01.01.2020- 31.12.2024
Regulatory dynamics of heart formation and in vivo cardiac reprogramming PI: Marco Osterwalder (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 01.05.2020- 30.04.2025
LMol: Biomolecular language models for protein design PI: Thomas Lemmin (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine) Duration: 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2026
The risks and benefits of integrating emotions in end of life communication PI: Sofia Carolina Zambrano Ramos (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2026
Quantitative magnetic resonance biopsies: Exploiting signal asymmetries for next-generation noninvasive biomarker mapping PI: Josefina Bastiaansen (Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology) Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2026
Immunometabolic sensing of bacterial metabolites driving diet-induced obesity PI: Maria Luisa Balmer (Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism) Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2026
Disease-targeted next-generation sequencing panel (VASCSequ) for detection of somatic-mosaic mutations in congenital vascular malformations to enable further advances in personalized therapeutic decision making PI: Iris Baumgartner (Department of Angiology) Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024
Unravel Principles Of Self-Organization In Injured Tissue PI: Eliane J. Müller (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 31.06.2021 - 31.05.2024
Trans-omic approach to colorectal cancer: an integrative computational and clinical perspective PI: Inti Zlobec (Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology) Duration: 01.10.2020 - 30.09.2024
Xeno2Cure - advanced engineering and testing of organ donor pigs PI: Robert Rieben (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.03.2025
PROMETEX: Metabolically-instructed personalized therapy selection for prostate cancer PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2025
HORAO - Polarimetric visualization of Healthy brain fiber tracts for tumor delineation during neurosurgery PI: Philippe Schucht (Department of Neurosurgery) Duration: 01.04.2022 - 31.03.2026
Dynamic consortium interactions that establish the microbiota during weaning PI: Andrew Macpherson (University of Bern) Duration: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2026
Exploring the Cellular Impact of Neural Oscillations PI: Antoine Adamantidis (Department of Neurology) Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026
Modulation of Agency in Functional Neurological Disorders PI: Selma Aybek Rusca (Department of Neurology) Duration: 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2023
Encoding of anxiety and fear in the ventral CA1 hippocampus PI: Stephane Ciocchi (Department of Physiology) Duration: 01.03.2022 – 29.02.2024
Functional cure of hepatitis B in Switzerland and sub-Saharan Africa: determinants and long-term impact on clinical outcomes PI: Gilles Olivier Wandeler (Department of Infectious Diseases) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2024
Coordination of host-microbe interactions by crosstalk with anti-glycan antibodies in inflammatory bowel diseases PI: Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2027
The emergence of self-harm in the first decades of life: a biopsychosocial perspective on developmental dynamics, risk and protective factors PI: Annekatrin Steinhoff (University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy) Duration: 01.02.2023 - 31.01.2028
Advancing researCh on exTreme hUmid heAt and heaLth - ACTUAL PI: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine) Duration: 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2028
HeartX – Decoding cardiac regulatory landscapes in an all-human model for cardiogenesis Co-PI: Marco Osterwalder (Department for BioMedical Research) Duration: 01.10.2022 – 30.09.2025
Using Zophobas morio larvae to design a new in vivo model of intestinal colonization due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales Co-PI: Andrea Endimiani (Institute for Infectious Diseases) Duration: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025
The digital diagnostician: how information technology affects medical diagnoses Co-PI: Wolf Hautz (Department of Emergency Medicine) Duration: 01.04.2020 – 30.09.2023
The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) is a national initiative under the leadership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Harmonising the collection of health-related data and biospecimens in paediatric hospitals throughout Switzerland. PI: Claudia Kuehni (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
Swiss BioRef: Personalized reference values for precision medicine. PI: Alexander Leichtle (Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases)
Swiss Molecular Pathology Breakthrough Platform (SOCIBP). Co-PI: Mark Rubin (Department for BioMedical Research)
