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We’re delighted to announce a new entrepreneurial funding model that will extend the support options available to the USZ Foundation. It will create a philanthropic funding loop facilitating even more medical innovations that improve people’s quality of life. How the philanthropic funding loop works The USZ Foundation and its supporting partners grant loans to fund […]

Professor Dr. med. Brigitte Leeners has been elected to the USZ Foundation Board of Trustees with effect 23 September 2024. For the last four years, the gynecologist and reproductive medicine specialist has directed University Hospital Zurich’s Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, having held various positions there, most recently Head of Clinical Research, since 2003. Her current […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The fox tapeworm can cause major damage to the human liver. Until now, many of the people affected have had to take medication for the rest of their lives. This may now change. Thanks to a gift to the USZ Foundation from a former patient of USZ’s Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, a team of […]

A researcher makes it possible to diagnose kidney cancer more precisely. An ophthalmologist aims to improve care for those with vision impairment. It’s these innovative people at University Hospital Zurich who are developing the medicine of tomorrow. Many outstanding ideas are simply waiting to be put into practice. Donors to the USZ Foundation help make […]

USZ music therapist Friederike Haslbeck has been awarded this year’s Susanne Klein-Vogelbach-Preis. Every year, a foundation called the Georg und Susanne Klein-Vogelbach-Stiftung awards the prize for outstanding research in neurosciences, orthopedics or anatomy. Dr. Friederike Haslbeck has been honored for her research into the question of how creative music therapy affects the brains of children […]

Novartis Research Foundation’s FreeNovation program funds unconventional projects with the potential to permanently alter the course of biomedical research. In the course of the 2021 tender, eight projects were chosen by a prestigious international panel. Those selected for funding include Annika Keller, Ph.D., Senior Researcher at the USZ Department of Neurosurgery, with a project entitled […]

It works! The test developed by pathologist Niels Rupp at the USZ for diagnosing tumors of the salivary gland has proven its worth in practice. The test enables all the typical genetic changes to be detected in a single analysis, making diagnosis significantly easier. Determining the type of tumor in cases of salivary gland cancer […]