«As a researcher I remain sceptical» Olivier Schären is developing a novel vaccine against one of the world's most harmful poultry diseases with the startup Santella. 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 of an improved ex vivo model of tick-borne encephalitis has been successfully accepted for the ECCMID23 congress!
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.
MPOX Virus PCR for patients residing in the canton of Bern The Institute for Infectious Diseases performs a qualitative real-time PCR for the detection of mpox viruses on behalf of the Bern Health Department from 11.07.2022. This examination can be requested for all patients residing in the canton of Bern. An information page has been set up for this purpose.
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).
Resultate des 501Y-Mutationsscreenings mittels RT-PCR von SARS-CoV-2-positiven Proben, welche im IFIK analysiert wurden.
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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
One Health: Cascading and Microbiome-Dependent Effects on Multitrophic Health – new interdisciplinary project involving 2 IFIK groups.
