The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
30 September 2022
Twelve years after its creation, Synapsy closes the NCCR chapter and opens a network of faculty Centers in psychiatric neurosciences. The NCCR Synapsy came to an end on September 30th, 2022, after the maximal twelve-year support provided by the Swiss Read more…
29 September 2022
The scientific magazine of the University of Geneva, Campus, has dedicated its 150th issue to the NCCR-Synapsy. Campus reviews Synapsy’s major contributions to the early identification of symptoms of psychiatric diseases. It also highlights the paradigm shift that the National Centre of Competence in Read more…
14 April 2022
The last NCCR Synapsy retreat, held on April 4 and 5 in Les Diablerets, was a time of emotion, sharing and excellence! The pooling of researchers, fuelled by clinical psychiatry and basic neuroscience, reached its peak after 12 years of Read more…
17 November 2021
The poster session of the eleventh annual meeting of the NCCR-Synapsy took place at the Diabrlerets Convention Center on the evening of Thursday, October 14. Peter Uhlhaas, representative of the Synapsy Advisory Board, generously agreed to serve as a member Read more…
28 September 2021
Daniella Dwir, researcher in the laboratory of Kim Do at the Schizophrenia Research Unit of the Center for Psychiatric Neurosciences of the CHUV, won the “Young investigator award” of the Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry (SSBP) during its 2021 annual Read more…
9 March 2021
Every two years, the Swiss Brain League awards a prize of CHF 20,000 to a Swiss research group in recognition of its outstanding scientific contribution in the field of neurological research. Both clinical and basic research projects are eligible. The Read more…
24 December 2020
The Management Team wishes You all the Best for the New Year!
1 October 2020
Prof. Johannes Gräff, Synapsy principal investigator, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Life Sciences at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL. At its meeting of 23/24 September 2020 and upon application of the President of ETH Zurich, Professor Read more…
14 July 2020
Following the WHO’s announcement on the coronavirus pandemic, our planet entered several weeks of confinement. Since then, the scientific community has been studying the consequences of this health crisis, particularly on women. As women are in the majority in the Read more…
