Corona-Virus

The University of Bern is constantly monitoring the situation. Information on the situation at the University of Bern are published here. If you have any questions about the situation at the University of Bern, please contact the Risk Management Office as the coordinating unit.

New coronavirus

The coronavirus can pose a serious risk to people over the age of 65 and to those with underlying medical conditions. New sets of recommendations – general and for the workplace – should help to protect these groups. Under this rubric, you will find information on this and the current situation, FAQs and recommendations for travellers.

Covid-19 Tracker

#CoronaInfoCH: Young researchers have built a data platform with the task force of the ETH Zürich and the GSI of Canton Bern, to gather information of Covid-19 directly from the public. http://covidtracker.ch
http://ow.ly/5Oey50yWeZJ

Newsarticle: «Ein Impfstoff ist die schärfste Waffe!»

Martin Bachmann, Gruppenleiter am Departement for Biomedical Research @DBMR_UniBe der #unibern, forscht seit Januar an einem Impfstoff gegen CoViD19.

Hirnschlag: Berner Team entwickelt verbesserte Therapie

Bern and Fribourg researchers identify neurons responsible for rapid eye movements (REM) during sleep

Why do we move our eyes fast in the paradoxical sleep - in that sleep phase, in which most dreams take place? The secret is not yet fully aired, but we are on his track: A team at the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Fribourg, has identified the nerve cells behind this curious phenomenon.

Please find more information in the attached release or on our website: https://tinyurl.com/NeuronsREMSleep

ERC Consolidator Grants Call (CoG) 2020 is open until February 04

ERC Consolidator Grants support excellent researchers with 7–12 years of experience after their PhD (extensions are possible under certain circumstances) up to 2€ million for 5 years

GL Excellence Award 2019: Prof. Johanna Kremer Hovinga

GL Excellence Award 2019: Prof. Johanna Kremer Hovinga was awarded! Follow the link to the announcement (it is in German).

CANCELLED Swiss Proteomics Meeting 2020 - Registration is open now

The 2020 event will take place on April 2 and 3, 2020 in beautiful Eurotel Montreux again!
Registration is open now here until February 23, 2019!

Registration MIC Symposium 2019

Machine Learning in Imaging
Date: Friday 29.11.2019, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm. Please register online until 03.11.2019.

3RCC Open Call 2019 – Applications open until November 3

The Swiss 3R Competence Centre publishes regular calls for funding research projects dedicated to the replacement, reduction or refinement of animal experimentation and is now accepting applications for the Outline Application Stage.

SNSF career funding schemes Ambizione and PRIMA

open until November 1

Ambizione grants are aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution. PRIMA grants are aimed at excellent women researchers who show a high potential for obtaining a professorship.

CSL Research Acceleration Initiative

Applications close 30th September, 2019
CSL and the University of Bern, Inselspital and sitem-insel wish to establish new collaborative partnerships to accelerate research. To celebrate the establishment of the CSL Behring Biologics Research Center within sitem-insel, a call for Reserach Proposals is being announced.

Major award for two Bernese medical projects

Congratulations to Marianna Kruithof-de Julio and Robert Rieben for both receiving a DoD Grant!
Prestigious grants from the USA go to two Bernese researchers: the biomedical scientists Marianna Kruithof-de Julio and Robert Rieben were the only researchers in Switzerland to receive a grant under two "Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs", which primarily support research in the USA. This underlines the unique quality of medical research at the University of Bern.

Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers

deadline for applications: Wednesday, 16.10.19
The Fund supports thematic, innovative events such as conferences, continuing education instruments, internet platforms, seminars, workshops, etc., aimed at improving networking among the University's intermediate staff. As a rule, a sum of no more than CHF 5,000 may be applied for. Successful projects will need to be carried out until December 2020.

Postdoctoral agreement

Legal foundations have been revised as well as newly created to implement the concept on the promotion of early career researchers. The changes at postdoc level come into force on August 1, 2019. The Executive Board of the University of Bern has thus issued postdoc regulations. Section 8 of the Regulations states that, from August 1, 2019 a contractual agreement is required for every appointment of a postdoctoral researcher.

ERC Synergy Grant 2020 is open until November 5

ERC Synergy Grants support groups of 2-4 Principle Investigators (PIs) working jointly and bringing together different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems.

ERC Starting Grants Call (StG) 2020 will be open until 16 October

ERC Starting Grants support excellent young researchers who are 2-7 years after their PhD (extensions are possible under certain circumstances). Call should open soon.

Licenced Acces to Lab Animals

The DBMR now has access to the journals of Nature Lab Animals.

25 Years DBMR

Swiss Federal Innovation Promotion Instruments

Slides from the presentation of Dr. Lutz Nolte (Senior Innovation Advisor, Vice-Rectorate Research, UniBe).

Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020

On 27 October 2017, the European Commission presented the final Work Programme for Horizon 2020, covering the budgetary years 2018, 2019 and 2020 and representing an investment of around €30 billion.

Day of BioMedical Research 2019 - Invitation / Announcement.pdf

ERC Advanced Grant 2019 is open until August 29

ERC Advanced Grants support ground-breaking, ambitious research projects of excellent established Principal Investigators with a recognised track record of research achievements. Up to €2.5 million (in certain circumstances up to €3.5 million) are available for projects of up to 5 years duration.

SNSF launches a new funding scheme: Spark

The aim of Spark is to fund projects that show unconventional thinking and introduce a unique approach. The focus is on promising ideas of high originality, relying on no or very little preliminary data. The call closes July 17, 2019.

Announcement - Prix Lux 2019

At the University of Bern, there are numerous individuals and units who are committed to equal opportunities and equality. Such commitment is rewarded. The University of Bern awards the Prix Lux for the third time in 2019.
The price winner will receive CHF 2'000.- and a luminous object. The winner is elected by a jury.
The deadline for applications is 30 June 2019.

DBMR Info Event presentation slides

EASI-Genomics Opens First Call for Transnational Access

This genomics research infrastructure project will provide free-of-charge sequencing and data analysis services to selected projects in its 11 participating facilities in Europe. Deadline for project submission is 25 April 2019. Please contact the Grants Office (Mariana Ricca) for further information.
Link to - https://www.easi-genomics.eu/access/calls/first-call-0

3rd call for proposals for pioneer projects: multi '-omics' data collection and interpretation of clinical sample cohorts

With its 3rd call for proposals, PHRT invites clinical scientists, who have access to an extensive sample cohort, to create an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary consortium to formulate a well-defined clinical question to request funding to generate matched genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data by the two PHRT platforms. Data integration, data analysis and data interpretation is an important part of the project as well. Applications using the PHRT templates must be submitted by May 27, 2019. Please contact the Grants Office (Mariana Ricca) for further information.
Link to - https://www.sfa-phrt.ch/3rd-call-documents

US Department of Defense new call for cancer research

Funding opportunities are available for researchers at all levels for research projects in different cancers and immunotherapy. Please contact the Grants Office (Mariana Ricca) for further information.

Vaccine developed to treat osteoarthritic pain

Researchers from the Universities of Bern and Oxford have developed a vaccine that blocks the effects of the main cause of pain in osteoarthritis (OA) - nerve growth factor (NGF) – in mice.

Neptun Wave Spring 2019 - 11 February - 11 March

US Department of Defense clinical trial and basic research calls 2019

Funding opportunities are available for researchers at all levels on a huge range of topics for clinical trials, as well as for basic research on ALS, MS and many types of cancer. Calls are now open and the deadlines are soon. Contact the Grants Office for more information.

Grants Office, Dr. Mariana Ricca, University of Bern

Meeting rooms H810 and H813 - List of the dates for reservations through DBMR

News from the Welcome Center

- International Office on Facebook
- Learning German at the University of Bern (spring 2019)
- City of Bern: "Bernetz“ project continues in 2019

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Johanna Dürmüller-Bol DBMR Research Award: der Gewinner ist Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg

This year's Johanna Dürmüller-Bol DBMR Research Award from the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) at the University of Bern goes to Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg. The Research Award, endowed with CHF 30,000, was presented at the "Day of BioMedical Research", on Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The DBMR congratulates its director Mark Rubin and George Coukos of the University of Lausanne for their Prostate Cancer Challenge Award

Immune-Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (testing the combination of radiation therapy and immunotherapy for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer, and identify biomarkers and mechanisms of treatment response).

Open call for national MD-PhD scholarships

The 2019 call for MD-PhD scholarships from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) is open until 15 December 2018. MD-PhD scholarships are awarded for a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 3 years to enable young physicians to complete a MD-PhD program of a Swiss university.
Detailed information on the format and procedure for submission can be found at the SAMS website

You have to take a step out of your research comfort zone

Molecular biologist Kellie Cotter from the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) receives the 2018 Young Investigator Award

ESPE Research Award 2018

This award recognises research achievements of outstanding quality in the fields of basic endocrine science or of clinical paediatric endocrinology.

The Francis Crick Institute FOUR YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS 2019

Our PhD programme is designed to attract the brightest scientific minds and is a fabulous opportunity for highly motivated and exceptionally talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
Application deadline: 13 November 2018 at 12:00

Media release, Roccio, M., Human hair cells from a test tube

BRAINBOX EXPERTS

Saisonale Grippeimpfung - Flu vaccinations 2018/ 2019

ERC Advanced Grant call - Work Programme 2019

This Work Programme introduces the possibility for one Principal Investigator in a Synergy
Grant Group to be based anywhere in the world, including outside the territory of the
European Union (EU) Member States and Associated Countries.

Deadline: 17 October 2019.

Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers

Webcam new building at Murtenstrasse 24

The DBMR has harmonized the names and acronyms of its animal core facilities

- Experimental Surgery Facility (ESF) [formerly Experimentalchirurgische Station Inselspital, ESI]
- Central Animal Facilities (CAF) [formerly Zentrale Tierversuchsanlagen / Zentrale Tierställe, ZT]

The new naming was chosen in analogy to the Clean Mouse Facility (CMF) of the DBMR

Arthur Steindler Award

The Orthopedic Research Society and University of Iowa awarded Prof. Dr. Ernst B. Hunziker from the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern the 2018 Arthur Steindler Award. This in recognition of his contributions to the orthopedics and the promotion of knowledge in the field of musculoskeletal disorders.

Grant for Neuromuscular Research - FSRMM

The Swiss Foundation for the Study of Muscular Diseases FSRMM awards a research grant to Prof. Dr. med. Smita Saxena from the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern: Characterizing the role of ER stress in C9orf72-linked ALS pathology

From Cancer Dependence to Cancer Therapeutics

William Sellers is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and faculty member and senior advisor to the president for experimental therapeutics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is a distinguished cancer scientist, with deep experience in cancer biology and cancer therapeutics.

Youtube - Lecture of Tuesday June 12, 2018

A single control center for sleep and wake in the brain

Until now, it was thought that multiple brain areas were needed to control sleep and wakefulness. Neuroscientists from Bern have now identified one single control center for the sleep-wake cycle in the brain. The findings are of great importance for finding new sleep therapies.

Stern-Gattiker Prize: Prof. Annalisa Berzigotti, first Awardee

The first prize-winner is Prof. Annalisa Berzigotti, senior physician Hepatology at Inselspital Bern and group leader at the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) of the University of Bern.

New Drug target to combat prostate cancer

A study by an international team of researchers from University Children’s Hospital Bern and the Autonomous University of Barcelona has discovered how the production of specific human sex hormones known as androgens is interrupted. These findings can help in development of new therapeutic approaches, as the overproduction of androgens is associated with many diseases including prostate cancer in men and polycystic ovary syndrome in women.

Prix Lux - Gender Equality Price of The University of Bern

In fall semester 2018 the University of Bern will, for the second time, award the gender equality prize Prix Lux. The prize can be awarded to persons or university units that foster equality within the fields of gender or diversity.

Please hand in your proposals by 15 July 2018

ERC Advanced Grant 2018 call

The European Research Council's Advanced Grant offers funding of EUR 2,5 million for 5 years to outstanding senior researchers (12 years or more post PhD/MD) who want to pursue a ground-breaking basic research project.
Deadline: 30 August 2018.

Contact: Grants Office, University of Bern (euresearch@research.unibe.ch)

Compulsory affiliation with DBMR when publishing papers

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