Events and news from the Faculty of Medicine
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Sustainability Week Basel
From March 24 to 29, 2025, the Sustainability Week will take place at various Swiss universities. Participation is free and open to all. Various events on the subject of sustainability will take place throughout the week.
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Info evening Master on March 20
On 20 March at 5.15 p.m., Vice President Prof. Dr. Thomas Grob will welcome prospective Master's degree students from all subjects, not just medicine, to the Kollegienhaus (main building), Petersplatz 1, Aula 033. Until 8 p.m., all…
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Clinical Research Day on 6 February 2025
The Department of Clinical Research invites clinicians and researchers to join their Research Day on Thursday, 6 February 2025 from 11.15 - 17.15 o'clock at Kleiner Hörsaal, Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung (ZLF) of the University Hospital…
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Department of Biomedicine Research Day on January 23, 2025
The Department of Biomedicine invites clinicians and researchers to join their 2025 Research Day on Thursday, 23 January 2025 from 8.25 - 12.30 o'clock at Grosser Hörsaal, Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung (ZLF) of the University Hospital…
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Museum Night 2025 - the Faculty of Medicine is present again
This year's Museum Night will take place on January 17, and the Anatomical Museum of the Faculty of Medicine will be there again. To mark its 200th anniversary last year, it will be taking a journey through the centuries and addressing the…
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116 new Doctrices and Doctores medicinae and medicinae dentalis
For the second time this year, the Faculty of Medicine awarded doctorates for over 100 new medical and dental medicine candidates in the Elisabethenkirche in Basel. The keynote speaker was Dr. Severin Schwan, Chairman of the Board of…
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Bachelor's Info Day on November 22
How the heck am I supposed to know what I want do be as a job? Some people are sure from childhood, for others this is one of the most difficult questions of all. A visit to the bachelor's info day can help here, because you can talk to…
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Register now: Swiss Robotics Day 2024 on 1 November in Basel
The most important Swiss event on the subject of robotics is taking place in Basel this year - co-organized by Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter from the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Register now and get to know the present and future of more…
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108 new Drs. med. and med. dent.
On May 31, 108 new medical and dental medicine doctors were sworn in at the Elisabethenkirche. The keynote speaker was Thomi Jourdan, Head of the Basel-Landschaft Department of Economic Affairs and Health.
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Birthday: The Faculty of Medicine turns 564!
On April 4, 1460, the Faculty of Medicine was founded as part of the University of Basel. In the same year, the Inca military leader Cápac Yupanqui subdued the Huanca people in Junín (Peru), Portuguese sailors discovered the Cape Verdean…News
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New Heads of the Department of Public Health
Since September 1, the Department of Public Health is led by Prof. Michael Simon and Prof. Mirko Winkler. The Faculty Assembly thanks the now replaced head Prof. Sabina de Geest for her many years of dedicated service at the DPH, in the…
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Change in the management of the Department of Clinical Research
After almost ten years in office, Prof. Mirjam Christ-Crain, MD, Deputy Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University Hospital Basel (USB), is stepping down from her position as Head of Department at DKF to devote…
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Career opportunities: Professorship Dementia Diseases
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel and the University Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter are seeking a Professor of Dementia (open-rank) in conjunction with the position as Chief Physician of the Memory Clinic for 01.07.2024…
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Career opportunities: Professorship for Geriatrics
For 01.07.2025 or by agreement, the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel and the University Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter are seeking a Professor of Geriatrics in conjunction with the position of Chief Physician Acute Geriatrics.
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Brain Signals of Good Memory Performance Revealed
People differ in their memory performance. Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine have now discovered that certain brain signals are related to these differences.
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Master’s Thesis Awards 2023
This year, the prizes of the Medical Faculty for the best Master's theses go to Simon Gallmann, Fabienne Bruggisser and Claudia Hauser.
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Welcoming of the New Professors
25 new professors were welcomed to the Faculty of Medicine by Dean Primo Schär on August 21. The event once again took place at Wildt'schen Haus on St. Peter's Square, the appropriate setting for an aperitif riche at 37 degrees in the…
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Medical Faculty’s Sustainability Efforts Honored
The Medical Faculty participated for the first time in an international sustainability reporting exercise and ranked among the top institutions in a Switzerland-wide comparison. The initiative called "Planetary Health Report Card" evaluates…
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New Building for Department of Biomedicine: All Systems are Go
With a new research building for the Department of Biomedicine, the University of Basel is setting the next building block on the Schällemätteli campus. The building permit has been issued, the contract with the general contractor has been…
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Birthday: The Faculty of Medicine turns 563
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel was founded on April 4, 1460, at a time when the cosmos still seemed to revolve around the earth and human health depended on four humors. No one in Europe knew about the Americas, and…News from the MedF cosmos
Inaugural and Habilitation Lectures
14
Mar 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Ups and downs of glucose - on the tracks of a rollercoaster ride"
11
Apr 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Artificial intelligence: revolution in heart attack diagnostics?"
25
Apr 2025
16:00
Departement Sport, Bewegung und Gesundheit, Grosse Allee 6, Basel, grosser Hörsaal. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Vascular Aging - What's that and who cares?"
02
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Inaugural lecture
"Improvisation and innovation in orthopaedics" (double lecture)
02
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Inaugural lecture
"Replacing the knee joint with a knee prosthesis - today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow" (double lecture)
07
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"One size fits all - a sensible approach to stroke treatment?"
21
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Problems with autoimmunity, self-deception and external deception"
23
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Uninvited stinging and burrowing guests: vector-borne infectious diseases"
28
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture
"Blood is a very special substance"
30
May 2025
18:15
Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.
Habilitation lecture