Equal opportunities
Highlighting women researchers
03.09.2021
To celebrate Women's Day 2021 and the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in Switzerland, all 22 National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) across Switzerland have been working together to publish a series of videos showcasing their women researchers.
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Repair
Watching polymers heal
28.04.2021
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute have developed a method to monitor the healing process of polymers and discovered that a much thicker interphase is required for…
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Innovation
NCCR start-up Microcaps raises CHF 5 million
26.01.2021
The NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials start-up Microcaps, a developer of formulation, processes and equipment to generate precision microcapsules, has announced that it has closed a CHF 5 million seed financing…
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Pflanzenschutz
Nanopartikel für die Landwirtschaft: Pflanzen stärken ohne Pestizide
14.12.2020
Forscher des Nationale Forschungsschwerpunkt (NFS) Bio-inspirierte Materialien und des Biologiedepartements der Universität Freiburg haben entdeckt, wie bestimmte Siliziumdioxid-Nanopartikel als spurlose,…
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Composite polymers
Narrowing the gap between natural and synthetic materials
24.11.2020
Skin and cartilage are both strong and flexible - properties that are hard to replicate in artificial materials. But a new fabrication process, developed by NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials scientists at EPFL,…
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Gut instinct
Next-gen organoids grow and function like real tissues
16.09.2020
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better…
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Making changes
New directorship for the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials
08.06.2020
The NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials director, Professor Christoph Weder, and his deputy, Professor Curzio Rüegg have stepped down after six years at the helm. Professor Ullrich Steiner has taken over as NCCR…
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Health
Major grant for virucide research
17.04.2020
The Werner Siemens Foundation has awarded a CHF 5 million grant to the laboratory of NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Principal Investigator Francesco Stellacci, funding clinical trials into compounds that…
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Bio-inspired
Recycling project earns ERC grant
31.03.2020
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Principal Investigator, Professor Francesco Stellacci (EPFL), has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council to investigate nature-inspired…
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