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  • USZ Foundation
  • Improving people’s quality of life together

    The USZ Foundation is University Hospital Zurich’s independent charitable foundation. We work with you to promote medical innovations at USZ that directly improve people’s quality of life. Thanks to your donation, we can do even more.

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  • “The Hub is helping take our project to the next level.”

    University Hospital Zurich now has a platform to help it identify and promote innovations even more rapidly: the Health Innovation Hub.

  • “My head feels free again.”

    How to time radiotherapy for brain metastases is controversial. A trial at University Hospital Zurich now aims to settle the matter.

  • “I am reassured by the examination.”

    If a tear develops in a coronary vessel it can lead to a heart attack. The cardiologist Christian Templin investigates the rare condition.

  • News
    • Monika Jänicke appointed new vice-president

      Dr. Monika Jänicke PhD has been elected as the new vice-president of the USZ Foundation with effect 1 June 2023. She holds a PhD in organometallic chemistry and was most recently Managing Director, Pharmaceuticals, for Novartis in its key market of France. There she successfully guided the company through a strategic and organizational transformation process […]
    • Better quality of life for children and young adults

      The Palatin-Stiftung foundation has made a renewed donation to the USZ Foundation to support two projects at University Hospital Zurich, both of which aim to improve therapy and thus quality of life for children and young adults. Professor Nicole Lindenblatt, a senior attending physician at the Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, is engaged […]
    • Four out of nine FreeNovation grants go to USZ

      Novartis Research Foundation’s FreeNovation program funds unconventional projects with the potential to permanently alter the course of biomedical research. At USZ, support from the Novartis Research Foundation runs via the USZ Foundation. In the course of the 2022 tender a prestigious international panel chose nine projects from all over Switzerland. Four of these grants go […]
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    We warmly invite you to join forces with the USZ Foundation to support medical innovation at University Hospital Zurich. Together we’ll find the right solution for your desired area of support.

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