The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
16 September 2017
In June 2017, Claudia Bagni received the Pavoncella Award for the Scientific Creativity for her research work on synaptic plasticity and neurodevelopmental disorders. The prize reward Italian and non-Italian women around the world for their creativity and excellence in art, Read more…
17 June 2017
In recognition of her exceptional contribution to the training of young talents and for commitment to the new generation of academics, Prof. Stephanie Clarke has been awarded the Outstanding Mentoring Award by the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the Read more…
5 May 2017
The research grant 2017 from the Swiss League Against Epilepsy goes to Dr. Charles Quairiaux, Dr. Abbas Khani and Prof. Christoph Michel of the Department of Basic Neurosciences of the University of Geneva for their project entitled: “Decreasing susceptibility of Read more…
31 January 2017
Alan Carleton, Nixon Abraham, Olivier Gschwend Pfizer Award 2017 – 25 young Swiss researchers were awarded for their outstanding scientific work, including three teams from the HUG and UNIGE. These are two joint HUG/UNIGE teams in clinical research and a Read more…
12 December 2016
Andrea Volterra & Christian Lüscher The Theodore Ott Award 2017 will be granted to two researchers for their remarkable works in neurosciences : Prof. Andrea Volterra from the Lausanne university. His group explores the central role, long ignored, of astrocytes Read more…
1 September 2016
Media Award 2016 from the Swiss Academies of Art and Sciences to Lison Méric’s documentary on schizophrenia “J’entends des voix (I hear voices)” broadcasted on RTS1 – 36.9°, 16 December 2015, with the participation of Philippe Conus and Kim Do. Read more…
28 June 2016
Nicolas Fasel and Patric Hagmann The FBM-UNIL Clinical Sciences Award was handed to Patric Hagmann for his work in the field of neuroradiology and brain connection studies through NMR diffusion techniques. The 2016 Honorary Professor, Giorgio Zanetti, outgoing director of the Read more…
26 June 2016
The Betty and David Koetser Foundation for research on the brain rewards this year Christian Lüscher, Professor at the Department of fundamental neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine at UNIGE (his group web page). Professor Lüscher, a specialist of neural Read more…
