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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 […]

In December 2016, University Hospital Zurich established an independent foundation to support the further development of medical technologies and innovations. Patients should be able to benefit from new and improved treatment methods quickly and directly. The Board of Foundation includes a number of well-known figures from business and academia.

A human’s microbiome – that is, the type of bacteria that colonize our gastrointestinal tract – differs from person to person in adults and has pronounced effects on the body. A new study with the participation of University Hospital Zurich reveals that the microbiome influences the prognosis in patients suffering from a heart attack.