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 polymer recycling.
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Grants
Major fellowships for NCCR scientists
28.02.2020
Two NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials post-doctoral researchers have been awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Philip Scholten and Samet Kocabey will investigate degradable plastics and cancer…
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PhDs
NCCR alum awarded best thesis prize
20.02.2020
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials alum Omar Rifaie Graham (Adolphe Merkle Institute) has been awarded the University of Fribourg's prize for best experimental thesis.
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Broad spectrum
New virucide to destroy infectious particles
30.01.2020
New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed by NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers and colleagues at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Manchester,…
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Equal opportunities
Award goes to NCCR team to promote professional role confidence
06.01.2020
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Principal Investigators Professors Alke Fink and Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, along with Outreach manager Dr. Sofia Martin Caba, are one of two recipients of the inaugural 2019…
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Recognition
FenX wins startup award
22.11.2019
The NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials supported startup FenX is the winner of this year's Swiss Technology Award in the "Inventors" category, presented at the Swiss Innovation Forum in Basel on November 21.
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Award-winning
Best thesis prize goes to NCCR graduate
15.11.2019
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials graduate Dr. Céline Calvino has been awarded the 2019 Chorafas Prize for the best doctoral thesis in natural sciences at the University of Fribourg, which focused on the development…
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Sophisticated glassware
Novel printing technique for glass structures
11.11.2019
Stereolithography, one of the most common 3D printing technologies, has so far remained inaccessible to processing of functional glass structures. Now, NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at ETH Zürich…
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A flash in the night
Nocturnal moth displays dynamic wing coloration
08.08.2019
Animals that are active at night are thought to rely on senses other than vision, but a new study led by researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials at…
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Microfluidics
Simulating embryo formation
11.07.2019
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers have used a microfluidic device to model embryonic formation with stem cells, paving the way for more controlled growth of specific human tissues in the laboratory.
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