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One of the themes of Swiss Digital Day on 3 September 2019 is digitalization in healthcare. The USZ Foundation is taking part by way of a blog post. In an interview Emanuela Keller, medical director of the neurological intensive care unit at USZ, explains how digitalization can make intensive care even safer and more humane. […]

The Department of Radiation Oncology at University Hospital Zurich has Switzerland’s first hybrid MRI-Linac device. The equipment integrates magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a radiotherapy linear accelerator to irradiate tumors with greater precision. The technology was acquired with the help of a gift to the USZ Foundation. Two become one: the MRI-Linac combines magnetic resonance […]

Blood transfusions are a risk for patients. Patient blood management helps avoid the need for them. With the support of the USZ Foundation, Donat Spahn, Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, is setting up a range of training courses on this topic. He has now been able to show in a study that patients benefit […]

The University Hospital Zurich Foundation − USZ Foundation for short − can look back on a successful second year. Our donors made it possible to support 27 projects at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ). Read more in the Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report. The USZ Foundation was founded in 2017 with the aim of creating medical […]

The University Hospital Zurich Foundation supports the research done by cardiologist Firat Duru at University Hospital Zurich. Duru is an expert in a heart disease called arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, ARVC for short. He and his colleague Corinna Brunckhorst are inviting fellow experts to USZ for the Zurich International Symposium on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies on 26 […]

With the research platform “Ally Science”, the Allergy station of the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Zurich wants to establish early warning systems for pollen allergy sufferers. The pilot study has now provided promising data. The University Hospital Zurich Foundation is supporting the project in the search for funding partners. The project started […]

The University Hospital Zurich Foundation supports pioneering projects for healthy ageing. At Switzerland’s public DO-HEALTH event on 23 November 2018, Managing Director Corinna Adler will present the Foundation’s activities at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. DO-HEALTH is the largest age study in Europe. To extend healthy life expectancy, the University Hospital Zurich Foundation supports for example the […]

Samuel laughs happily and hugs his stuffed doll, ‘Fenggli’. He is able to play and have fun – all thanks to the surgical expertise of Professor Martin Rücker and his team at the Interdisciplinary Craniofacial Center. A year and a half ago, Samuel was born with a cleft lip. Now, you can hardly tell: when […]

Breathe freely instead of a stuffy nose. Help the approximately two million Swiss pollen allergy sufferers and support a study by the Allergy Unit at the University Hospital Zurich together with the University Hospital Zurich Foundation. Burning eyes, drippy nose, itchy skin: Around two million people in Switzerland suffer from physical discomfort during the pollen […]

The University Hospital Zurich Foundation can look back on a successful first year. Donatios have made it possible to start initial projects. Read more in the Foundation’s Annual Report 2017. Creating medical innovations that directly improve people’s lives: With this in mind, the University Hospital Zurich Foundation was founded in March 2017. Now she can […]