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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…

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Career opportunities: professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry

The Faculty of Medicine Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel are calling for proposals to fill the position of a structural clinical professorships, starting in November 2025 or as agreed. Application deadline is March 13,…
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A Tenacious Researcher: Mirjam Christ-Crain in UNI NOVA

In the current issue of UNI NOVA, Irène Dietschi focuses on the work of Prof. Mirjam Christ-Crain at the University Hospital and the Department of Clinical Research. Her motto "Never give up" takes the endocrinologist into specialist areas…
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Inger Stalling Prize 2024/2025 for Marc Schmid and Serge Brand from the UPK

PD Dr. Marc Schmid and PD Dr. Serge Brand were honored with the Inger Salling Prize 2024/2025 for their outstanding contributions to better psychiatric care for disadvantaged people.
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Tobias Derfuss and Jens Kuhle Professors of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis

The University Council has appointed Tobias Derfuss and Jens Kuhle as Professors of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis at the Faculty of Medicine. The professorships will be shared between the two doctors.
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Two SNSF Advanced Grants for researchers at the Faculty of Medicine

Cancer researcher Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bentires-Alj and diabetes researcher Prof. Dr. Marc Donath, both from the Department of Biomedicine, have each received one of the highly competitive Swiss National Science Foundation awards.
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States of the art: Inaugural and habilitation lectures until June 2025

The dates for the inaugural and habilitation lectures until the end of June 2025 have been set. In two inaugural and eighteen habilitation lectures, interested attendees will gain an insight into the latest research in numerous medical…
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Three professorships, four people, seven doctorates

The University Council has appointed four new professors in the fields of geriatric medicine, orthopaedics and biomechanics: Prof. Dr. Dr. Marc Aurel Busche, Prof. Dr. Dr. Heike Annette Bischoff-Ferrari, Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Hirschmann and…
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New Department of Biomedicine building enters shell construction phase

Following the demolition of the previous building and the excavation of the building pit, the foundations of the spectacular building for the Department of Biomedicine were recently laid. A new, exciting construction phase is now beginning…
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Intensive exercise - longer life

Fabian Schwendinger and colleagues from the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the Faculty of Medicine have investigated how the type of physical activity is related to life expectancy. Their study shows that those who engage in…
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Dean Eva Scheurer's favorite place in Basel

The University of Basel traditionally asks all deans about their favorite place in Basel in front of the camera - and it's always on the very site. As Primo Schär's successor, this pleasure has now also been bestowed on the Dean of the…

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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"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Matthias Hepprich, private lecturer in endocrinology
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?"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Jasper Boeddinghaus, private lecturer in cardiology
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?"

PD Dr. med. Karsten Königstein, private lecturer in sports medicine
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)

Lecture in German. Prof. Dr. med. Andrej Nowakowski, Clinical Professorship of Orthopaedics and Biomechanics
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)

Lecture in German. Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hirschmann, Clinical Professorship of Orthopaedics and Biomechanics
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?"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Christopher Tränka, Privatdozent for Neurology
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"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. Nicholas Sanderson Associate Professor of Experimental Medicine
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"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Michael Büttcher, Privatdozent for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
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"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Beatrice Drexler, Privatdozentin for Hematology
30 May 2025
18:15

Aula des Naturhistorischen Museums, Augustinergasse 2, Basel. Bitte beachten Sie eventuelle Änderungen.

Habilitation lecture

"Sound waves in the service of vascular medicine: seeing is more"

Lecture in German. PD Dr. med. Andrej Isaak, Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery