February

Making an energy-intensive business sustainable is a challenge. The Swiss Saltworks (Schweizer Salinen) decided to collaborate with ETH Zurich to tackle this challenge.  

In reconstructive surgery, it is important to have tissue with an aligned cell growth. ETH researcher Dr. Vahid Hosseini has developed a 3D scaffold that supports cell growth and can be easily manufactured.  

Highest commercial potential, strongest patent, first in originality – learn more about the nominated technologies and get a chance for networking at the Spark Award ceremony on 19 March 2019.

Increasing drug resistance makes the search for new antibiotic substances essential. ETH Pioneer Fellows and co-founders of SpheroBiotics Dr. Irene Wüthrich and Dr. Steven Schmitt have developed a technology to find new microorganisms in nature that produce antibiotics.