The latest honours and prizes

The HiLo unit, the GLC research building and the Klangkleid pavilion – three architectural projects connected with ETH have won one of this year’s “Arc Awards”, a Swiss architecture prize. They received the prize in the Digitalisation, Education & Health, and Special Prize categories.

Spark is a new scheme for rapid funding of unconventional ideas. Launched in 2019, it has generated enormous interest. More than 700 projects were submitted by mostly young researchers with a doctoral degree.

The doctoral student at the Department of Biosystems developed an in vitro process that tests new medications for adverse effects on embryos. Now she has been honoured with a top international prize for alternatives to animal testing.

Dr. Barbara Solenthaler from the Computer Graphics Laboratory (D-INFK) has received the prestigious TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship.

Francesco Locatello, PhD student from the Biomedical Informatics Lab in the Computer Science Department (D-INFK) has received the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship.

The jury of the Friedrich Miescher Prize announced the two awardees for 2018: Paola Picotti (professor at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich) shares the award with Marek Basler (Biozentrum Basel). The prize honours young biochemists.

The Sanofi Pasteur Award recognizes researchers for past or ongoing work that demonstrates significant scientific progress in the life sciences. Antonio Lanzavecchia receives the prize for his research on the role of human monoclonal antibodies in the fight against malaria.