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MedLab Fellowship – Submission deadline 31.01.2024
The MedLab Program is a Fellowship program initiated by ETH Zurich, dedicated to medical doctors holding a Dr. med. on their way to the “Facharzttitel”. The fellowship enables medical doctors to further deepen their research knowledge (e.g. in basic ...
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SNSF & Innosuisse funding scheme information events
On November 3, 2023 (09:00 – 11:30) and on November 15, 2023 (14:00 – 16:30) the SNSF and Innosuisse will hold two online information events for researchers. The various funding schemes offered by the SNSF and Innosuisse will be presented. More detai ...
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National MD-PhD Grants Program: Submission deadline 15 December 2023
MD-PhD grants enable particularly talented young physicians to complete a doctoral research training in natural sciences, public health sciences, clinical research or biomedical ethics at a Swiss university. Grants can be awarded for a minimum of 2 t ...
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KSSG researcher receives the SWISS BRIDGE Award
Prof. Dr. Lukas Flatz, Head of Experimental Dermatology at KSSG, and his team, together with a research group from Austria, received the SWISS BRIDGE Award 2023 for their promising research projects. The prize money of CHF 250’000 each is intended to ...
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Ambizione - Submission deadline 01.11.2023
Ambizione grants are aimed at young researchers from Switzerland and abroad who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project. An Ambizione grant covers the grantee's salary and the funds needed to carry out the project. An Ambizione p ...
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Euresearch – Information Event on Horizon Europe Health Opportunities
On November 7, 2023 (12:15 – 13:45) Euresearch is organizing an online event about funding opportunities for collaborative research and innovation projects in the area of Health. The event will focus on the health-related opportunities in Horizon Eur ...
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Training on EU Health Proposal With Clinical Studies
This training is open to investigators and project managers in ECRIN member and observer countries considering applying for funding for clinical study projects through the Horizon Europe programme. Switzerland is eligible to do so and funding is prov ...
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ERI Dispatch 2025-2028: SNSF wants to secure innovation and tackle new challenges
In its statement on the draft ERI Dispatch, the SNSF is calling for total federal funding of 5.17 billion francs for the 2025-2028 period, corresponding to real growth of 3.5 per cent per year. The Federal Council wants to cut spending on resear ...
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Euresearch – Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Online Info Day
The IHI is an EU public-private partnership funding health research and innovation. On September 5, 2023 (11:00 – 13:00) Euresearch is organizing an online event, exclusively tailored for Swiss-based applicants, providing essential legal and topic in ...
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SNSF online event on the transitional measures
On September 25, 2023 (11:30 - 13:00) the SNSF will hold an online information event on the various transitional measures. SERI and Euresearch will be there to present the European calls. Registration is possible via the following link. ...
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St.Gallen is to host an ETH/Empa professorship
ETH Zurich, Empa, Kantonsspital St.Gallen (KSSG), the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and the Canton of St.Gallen are planning to establish a joint professorship between ETH Zurich and Empa in St.Gallen by 2025. The professorship will develop new diagn ...
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Call for new NCCR series in November 2023
Five successful series of National Centres of Competence in Research have been launched since 2001 – a sixth is expected to start in early 2026. The SNSF will publish the call for proposals in the second half of November 2023. This sixth NCCR call wi ...
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Ultra-long protein fibrils give clues on dementia risk
During the course of Alzheimer's disease, protein fibrils appear in the spinal fluid of affected individuals. Empa researchers, together with the Department of Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen, have now visualized the wide spectrum of pro ...
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Fighting malignant brain tumors with bacterial peptides
An international team of scientists was able to detect small protein fragments (peptides) from bacteria that are presented to the immune system by brain tumors on the cell surface. "The bacterial peptides are not only presented, they are also recogni ...
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Project funding: Collaborative and interdisciplinary projects growing in importance
The SNSF is integrating collaborative and interdisciplinary research into its “project funding” scheme. The current Sinergia programme will be fully integrated into project funding. The SNSF will now provide a maximum of 250,000 francs annually per a ...
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Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials (IICT) 2023 – Submission deadline for letters of intent 26 May 2023
The IICT programme is targeted at researchers who wish to conduct an investigator initiated clinical trial. Support will be given to trials that are of value to the patients and address important unmet medical and societal needs but are not in indust ...
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Young Talents in Clinical Research – Submission deadline 30 June 2023
With this funding program, the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation and the SAMS enable young medical doctors to gain initial research experience. In 2023, another CHF 1 Mio. will be available to finance junior staff "protected research ti ...
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Basic Training on EU Research, Development & Innovation Funding Opportunities
On April 18, 2023 (10:00 – 12:00) Euresearch is organizing an online event on the EU Framework Program Horizon Europe. You will get an overview of the program, learn to find your way around the many options and get tips for getting started. Regi ...
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SNSF Project funding - Submission deadline 03.04.2023
Under the project funding scheme, qualified researchers define their research themes and objectives themselves and conduct their project under their own responsibility. The researchers can apply for funding of research costs and staff salaries, as we ...
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SNSF Sinergia - Submission deadline 17.04.2023
Sinergia promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration of two to four applicants who propose breakthrough research that integrates elements (theories, methods, concepts, etc.) from two or more disciplines. Further information can be found under the fo ...
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