The research project BIO-COMET has been awarded a support by the eFP7 program in 2011:
"Bioreactor-based, clinically oriented manufacturing of engineered tissues"
Prof. Ivan Martin (Department of Biomedicine and Department of Surgery, University Hospital Basel) - coordinator
Participants from Switzerland, Great Britain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Canada.

The following research project has been awarded by the targeted research programme Sinergia of the SNF in 2011:
"Developmental engineering of endochondral ossification from mesenchymal stem cells"
Prof. Ivan Martin (Department of Biomedicine and Department of Surgery, University Hospital Basel)
Prof. Rolf Zeller (Department of Biomedicine)
Prof. Dagmar Iber (ETH Basel)
Prof. Prasad Shastri (University of Freiburg, Germany)

The following research projects have been awarded by the innovation funds of the University Hospital Basel and Roche «Basel Translational Medicine Hub » in 2011:
“Transition between normal and aberrant angiogenesis”
Dr. Andrea Banfi (Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel)
Dr. Peter Berndt (Roche)
“Synaptic mechanisms of neural network dysfunction in autism”
Prof. Dr. Josef Bischofberger (Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel)
Dr. Ravi Jagasia (Roche)
Link: http://www.unibas.ch/index.cfm?uuid=8D3FF944040CA26AE7F48AF94CAC114F&type=search&show_long=1

The following research projects have been awarded by the targeted research programmes
of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF):
Sinergia of SNF, 2010-2013
"Mouse and human stern cells: Control of self-renewal and neural differentiation"
The grant recipients are Yves A. Barde (project co-ordinator; Biozentrum, University of Basel),
Dirk Schübeler (FMI, Basel), Lukas Sommer (University of Zurich) and Austin Smith (University of Cambridge, UK).
Link: http://forschdb2.unibas.ch/inf2/rm_projects/object_view.php?r=241963
NFP63 of SNF, 2010 - 2014
"Legal and ethical challenges of stem cell donation"
Dr. Jörg Halter, project co-ordinator ( Departement Innere Medizin, Universitätsspital Basel)
Dr. Thomas Bart, Prof. Alberto Bondolfi, Yvonne Fischer,
Prof. Alois Gratwohl, PD Dr. Urs Schanz, Prof. Kurt Seelmann
"Analysis of thymus development"
Prof. Georg Holländer (Universität Basel, Departement Biomedizin)
"How an embryo develops from a sperm and an egg"
Dr. Antoine Peters (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel)
"Stopping stem cells from becoming brain tumors"
Prof. Heinrich Reichert (Biozentrum, Universität Basel)
Prof. Jürgen Knoblich (Institut für molekulare Biotechnologie, Wien, A)
Link: http://www.nfp63.ch/E/portrait/Pages/default.aspx |