Association Miniplant 4.0 The association Miniplant 4.0 was founded by Prof. Dr. A. Zogg in 2019 together with employees of the FHNW-HLS. The association represents a platform for the technology transfer between the chemical de-velopment and the industrial application. The association has the following main goals:…
Benedikt Brönnimann After successfully defending his Bachelor-Thesis “Development of setup to study electrostatic discharges” at the university of applied sciences FHNW-HLS (Project partner Syngenta), Benedikt joined us on March 1st 2023, strengthening the teams expertise in process development. Together with This…
ELISA-tests are heavily used in the agricultural sector to analyse crops and seeds for various virus antigens. There are two aims in this project, which are processed together with our partners from industry and academia. The first aim is finding and characterising new highly active enzymes for use in the…
In recent years, growing evidence shows that the microbes in our body are highly involved in our overall health. Specially, gut microbiota is key to human diseases and health, and nutrition may influ-ence its composition and balance. Recent studies have shown that vitamins delivered to the colonic microbiota may prevent…
Novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for different cancer types CanIso.netA new database to assess the impact of cancer-specific Most Dominant Transcripts (cMDT) using an isoform-specific interaction network. Alternative RNA splicing is a regulatory cellular mechanism to create multiple mRNA molecules from the same gene…
Synthetic glycolipids for the treatment of rare diseases GPI-Anchored Proteins Biosynthesis Rescue We established a synthetic strategy for the chemical synthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositols having unsaturated lipids. This strategy was used in a project with the group of Prof. Taroh Kinoshita from Osaka University and the Max Planck…
This Zahnd After successfully defending his Bachelor-Thesis “Modeling-Based Approach Towards Quality by Design for a Telescoped Process” at the university of applied sciences FHNW-HLS (Project partner Siegfried AG), This joined us on September 19th 2022, strengthening the teams expertise in process…
Novel tool for process development In cooperation with the company Fluitec AG as well as Schärer und Schläpfer AG the group of Prof. Dr. A. Zogg is currently developing a novel, model based safety concept for…
During the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Toxicology in Basel, November 2021, the poster entitled “Investigation of the interplay between oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in 3-dimensional primary human liver microtissues” prepared by Joelle Hofer and presented by Fabrice Müller was awarded a poster prize. At the same…