Das Department for BioMedical Research DBMR der Universität Bern hat, als Institut der Medizinischen Fakultät, den Auftrag, Forschenden des Inselspitals (Universitätsspital Bern, www.insel.ch) eine optimale Infrastruktur zur Verfügung zu stellen. Unser Ziel ist, Brücken zu schlagen zwischen laborbasierter und patientenorientierter klinischer Forschung.
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13.11.2019
The program for the Day of BioMedical Research is now online!
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
This is an early stage workshop aimed at PhDs and postdocs who would like to learn about all aspects of science commercialisation and translation. This is a wonderful opportunity and would encourage anyone with a potentially commercialisable idea arising from their research to register at https://bench2biz.ch/workshop/apply/ (Deadline 14th November).
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!
Machine Learning in Imaging
Date: Friday 29.11.2019, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm. Please register online until 03.11.2019.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Für die Umsetzung des Konzepts zur Nachwuchsförderung wurden rechtliche Grundlagen revidiert und neu geschaffen. Ab 01.08.2019 treten die Änderungen auf Postdoc-Stufe in Kraft. Die Universitätsleitung (UL) hat zu diesem Zweck ein Postdoc-Reglement erlassen. In Abschnitt 8 des Reglements wird festgehalten, dass ab dem 1. August 2019 für jede Anstellung einer Postdoktorandin oder eines Postdoktoranden eine Vereinbarung erforderlich ist. Die Vereinbarung muss innerhalb von sechs Monaten ab Anstellungsbeginn abgeschlossen werden
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 support excellent young researchers who are 2-7 years after their PhD (extensions are possible under certain circumstances). Call should open soon.
The DBMR now has access to the journals of Nature Lab Animals.
Slides from the presentation of Dr. Lutz Nolte (Senior Innovation Advisor, Vice-Rectorate Research, UniBe).
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.
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.
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.
An der Universität Bern gibt es zahlreiche Personen und Einheiten, die sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung engagieren. Ein solches Engagement wird prämiert. Die Universität Bern vergibt 2019 zum dritten Mal den Gleichstellungspreis Prix Lux.
Der Preis besteht aus einem Geldbetrag von 2000 CHF und einem leuchtenden Objekt. Über die Preisträgerin oder den Preisträger befindet eine Jury.
Die Eingabefrist ist der 30. Juni 2019
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
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
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.
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.
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
- International Office on Facebook
- Learning German at the University of Bern (spring 2019)
- City of Bern: "Bernetz“ project continues in 2019
Der diesjährige Johanna Dürmüller-Bol DBMR Forschungspreis des Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) der Universität Bern geht an Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg. Der mit CHF 30'000.- dotierte Nachwuchs-Forschungspreis wurde am «Tag der BioMedizinischen Forschung», am Mittwoch, 7. November 2018, verliehen
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).
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
Molecular biologist Kellie Cotter from the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) receives the 2018 Young Investigator Award
This award recognises research achievements of outstanding quality in the fields of basic endocrine science or of clinical paediatric endocrinology.
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
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.
- Experimental Surgery Facility (ESF) [früher Experimentalchirurgische Station Inselspital, ESI]
- Central Animal Facilities (CAF) [früher Zentrale Tierversuchsanlagen / Zentrale Tierställe, ZT]
Die neue Namensgebung erfolgt analog der Clean Mouse Facility (CMF) des DBMR
Die Orthopaedic Research Society and University of Iowa vergab Prof. Dr. med. Ernst B. Hunziker vom Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) den 2018 Arthur Steindler Award. Dies in Anerkennung seiner Beiträge zur Orthopädie und der Förderung von Wissen auf dem Gebiet der Muskel-Skelett-Erkrankungen.
Die Schweizerische Stiftung für die Erforschung der Muskelerkrankungen FSRMM vergibt ein Forschungsstipendium an 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
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
Bisher wurde vermutet, dass verschiedene Hirnregionen für das Einschlafen und Aufwachen zuständig sind. Nun haben Berner Neurowissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler entdeckt, dass eine einzelne Schaltzentrale im Gehirn den Schlaf-Wach-Rhythmus steuert. Die Erkenntnisse sind von grosser Bedeutung für die Behandlung von Schlafstörungen und den damit verbundenen Krankheiten.
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.
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.
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
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)
Ultra-highly sensitive gel and chemochemical systems for the detection of fluorescence
Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Precision Oncology Research Group