Discover our key projects, partners, networks, and professional associations
The FHNW School of Life Sciences cooperates closely with prominent national, European and international organisations and industries. Our projects leverage major financing instruments. We participate in scientific and networking associations, where our researchers take on leadership roles.
Key projects with industry and research organisations
Horizon 2020 projects - as a coordinator
- AquaNES
- Electra
- Prolific
Horizon 2020 projects - as a partner
- InMare
- Pearrl
- MadforWater
- Inspire Water
- PertPV
- Pavitra Ganga
- Terminus
- InGreen
- InPharma
- FuturEnyzme
- Nowelties
- Scale
- NextGen
Horizon Europe projects
- AgriLoop
- BioToolCH
- FASS
- MAR2PROTECT
- NEXUS
- Nymphe
- OneEarth
- Pearl
- Phoenix
- StopUp
- TexMaTer
Projects funded by EU beyond H2020
- EU JPND: Multinational research projects on personalised medicine for neuro-degenerative diseases (ORGTHERAPY)
- Eurostars project 113627: Suppressing tremor to a bearable level (STABLE)
- Eurostars project 113479: 3D cell culture platform for personalised ovarian concer therapy selection
Projects funded by INTERREG
Funding Program by France, Germany & Switzerland for the Upper Rhine Region
- SPIRITS: Smart 3D-printed interactive robot for interventional radiology and surgery
- PERSONALIS: Platform for personalized medicine for autoimmune diseases
- TRIMABONE: 3d printing for resorbable implants
- WaterPollutionSensor: Use of a sensor network for the continuous monitoring of pesticides in drinking water
- ALBUCOL: Customisable natural hybrid protein materials for tissue engineering
- HelpMeWalk: Replace plaster casting in orthopedics with a digital solution
- Variopore: Innovative technology for fast and reliable diagnosis of infectious diseases
Projects funded by international foundations
- Wellcome Trust: Discovery of anti-DENV antibodies using artificial intelligence
- Adalbert-Raps Stiftung: Effizienzsteigerung von Algenkultivierungsprozessen
- UNIDO: Provision of eco-industrial park related services in Peru
Projects funded by the SNSF and BRIDGE
- Structural and functional characterisation of the primer synthesis ofarchaeoeukaryotic primases
- The underestimated role of the human omentum in metastatic spread
- Efficient colonic drug delivery
- Implemention of adverse outcome pathway in a plug and play microfluidics system: Liver fibrosis as a proof of principle
- European Joint Programme Rare Diseases: Development of new analytic tools and pathways to accelerate diagnosis and facilitate diagnostic monitoring of rare diseases
Projects funded by Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Agency)
- Development of a dual mode marker system for X-ray and optical stereoscopic camera tracking
- NANTI: Development of a nanoporous antibacterial surface for titanium implants by reverse-pulse electrochemical copper deposition
- Targeted vitamin delivery to the microbiome for improved gut health
- ALABAMA: Automated LADME assay platform based onadvanced microphysiological arrays
- Lyopan technology for orally dispersible tablets
- Drugs for wound healing
- Topical antiinfectives against leishmaniasis
- Impulse: a novel vaccine platform for antimicrobial resistant bacteria
- Multitron autoBP: Automated bioprocessing platform
- transFORM3D: Intelligenter und automatischer Schuheinlagen Design-Algorithmus
- FFORTESS: Fluorine free omniphobic roughness tailored extended slippery surfaces
- Raman ready
- Portable magnetocardiography device for the diagnosis of functionally relevant coronary artery disease
Projects funded by Swiss governmental institutions
- BAFU: Review study on the use of biotests for the assessment of industrial wastewater and proposal of an evaluation concept
- BAFU: Development of a concept for the determination and assessment of toxic wastewater in industrial plants
Projects funded by other Swiss foundations
- Botnar Research Centre for Child Health: DAVINCI: Development and validation of a lateral flow test to detect COVID-19 antigens and immunity in saliva
Involvement in associations, societies and networks
Switzerland
- Biotechnet Switzerland: Presidency
- BRIDGE (SNSF-Innosuisse): Board member
- PERSEO AG: Board member
- Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT): Council member
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM): Scientific advisory board member
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Swiss expert assessor
- Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE): Board member
- Swiss Society of Toxicology (SST): Vice Presidency
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik (SSBE): Member of the board
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft der Industrie ApothekerInnen (SGIA): Member
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Thermoanalyse und Kalorimetrie (SGTK): Member
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Verfahrens- und ChemieingenieurInnen (SGVC): Member
- Swissmedic Human Medicine Expert Committee (HMEC): Expert evaluator
- Swiss Medtech Association: Member
- Verein MiniPlant 4.0 für Innovative Process Technology: Presidency
Europe
- European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB): Vice-chairmanship of the plant, agriculture and food division
- European Hygenic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG): Swiss regional presidency
- European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals (PARC): Swiss national hub
- European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Sciences (EAMBES): Council member
- Federation of European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX): Member
- Wallenberg Foundation: Scientific advisory board member
International
- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC): Session member
- International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE): Swiss delegate
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