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Researcher at the University of Bern secures funding for innovative project

IFIK junior researcher Sabrina Stöckli has secured a BRIDGE Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Fellowship, receiving 130,000 CHF to advance intestinal vaccine research performed at Prof. Siegfried Hapfelmeier's laboratory for Gut Microbiology at the IFIK. As a Co-Founder of UniBe Spin-off "Santella," Sabrina will develop a novel vaccine targeting pathogenic E. coli in livestock. Sabrina is one of 11 recipients in the latest BRIDGE special call.
The fellowship, part of the BRIDGE funding program by SNSF and Innosuisse, supports young researchers in refining business ideas from their research for market entry and business model validation.

Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus (Europneumo)

Janine Lux won an award last week at the 16th European Meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus (Europneumo) in Crete for her oral presentation on "AmiA and AliA peptide ligands, found in Klebsiella pneumoniae, are imported into pneumococci and alter the transcriptome".

Stage-Up Winner: Enzoxa

The spin-off Enzoxa won the 2023 Bernese start-up comption stage-up. Enzoxa outperforms over 60 other projects in this competition. Enzoxa is a joint venture between the IFIK and IPS consisting of team members: Léa Chèvre, Dr. Matheus Notter, Prof. Christelle Robert, Prof. Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Dr. Pierre Mateo, and Cindy Chen (from left to right). Read more about the stage-up competition in entrepreneurship-bern.ch

«Als Forscher bleibe ich skeptisch»

With his start-up Santella, Olivier Schären is developing a new type of vaccine against one of the world's most harmful poultry diseases. He is one of four young researchers who are being supported in their leap into entrepreneurship as part of the Venture Fellowship Program of the Innovation Office of the University of Bern.

TOP 1-2% Poster

Congratulations to Simone Leoni
The poster on an improved ex-vivo model of tick-borne encephalitis was successfully accepted for the ECCMID23 congress!

Annual report of the National Center for Invasive Pneumococci (NZPn), 2022

Plant-derived medicines against stomach pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Microbial resistance development towards current antibiotics is alarming. New solutions to treat infectious diseases are urgently needed. IFIK Researchers Dr. Matheus Notter, Prof. Siegfried Hapfelmeier, and IPS Researcher Prof. Christelle Robert form the core team of the spin-off project “ENZOXA."
The aim is to harness the natural antimicrobial power of plants and develop novel treatments against the stomach pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Read the interview of UniBe Venture Fellow Dr. Notter in UNIAKTUELL.

First UniBE Venture Fellowships have been granted

For the first time, the University of Bern has awarded four "UniBE Venture Fellowships" to support entrepreneurial young researchers and their promising innovation projects: two are dedicated to combating antibiotic resistance, one to liver disease therapy and the fourth to improved psychotherapies.

Corona- Forschung in Hochsicherheitslaboren

Excerpt from the program "Quinta dimensione. Il futuro è già qui" of the Italian state television RAI with film footage shot in the sitem-insel building. In the feature, Dr. Kathrin Summermatter, head of the Biosafety Center of the Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK), comments on corona research in high-security laboratories. The whole program is available in the RAI 3 player (registration required).

Swiss scientist selected for WHO pathogen panel

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"In vitro" zoo helps to understand SARS-CoV-2

Medienmitteilung UniBE Sars -CoV-2

Resultate des 501Y-Mutationsscreenings mittels RT-PCR von SARS-CoV-2-positiven Proben, welche im IFIK analysiert wurden.

Annual Report of the National Center for invasive Pneumococci (NZPn), 2019

Unique biosafety laboratory in Switzerland up and running

Bern coronavirus clone goes "viral"

Wissen vermitteln, um Ängste zu nehmen

New research article on intestinal immunization

Universität Bern erhöht Testkapazität für Coronaverdachts-Proben

Medienmitteilung der Universität Bern - Neue App zum Umgang mit infektiösen Proben

Es werden Sachen behauptet, die weder Hand noch Fuss haben (Coronavirus)

Coronavirus News (BAG)

Antibiotikarichtlinien (Online)

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Genomic Epidemiology of human pathogens: Promises & challenges

sitem-insel: Eine schweizweit einzigartige Kooperation startet

The Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK), University of Bern is the first accredited laboratory worldwide to offer nanopore sequencing for the identification of bacteria using nanopore sequencing

Botox-Test on MEA Chip

Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Grown on Multi-Electrode Arrays as a Novel In vitro Bioassay for the Detection of Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxins. Frontiers in Pharmacology