News & Events

Our warmest congratulations to Paola on being awarded the OTTO NAEGELI Prize for Medical Research, one of the most highly esteemed medical prizes given in Switzerland.

Find the full ETH news article here:

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/04/paola-picotti-receives-prestigious-swiss-medical-research-prize.html

Nicola Zamboni and Alexander Theodorov reflect on the unique power of large-and single-cell scale metabolomics for fundamental and applied biomedical research. 

Venja Vieweger starts her PhD in the Sauer group as of 1. April 2026, working on metabolic regulation through canonical and non-canonical phosphorylation in E. coli. Welcome Venja, and all the best for your PhD journey! 

Our warmest congratulations to Ruedi Aebersold, the founder of IMSB, on being awarded the prestigious Gairdner Award for transforming protein analysis and establishing proteomics as rigorous, systems-level, and quantitative science.

Find the full ETH News Article here:

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/03/one-of-the-most-prestigious-medical-research-awards-bestowed-on-proteomics-pioneer-ruedi-aebersold.htm

Metabolomics data generated by mass spectrometry is extremely rich, but how do we transform data into information and insights?

Bernd Wollscheid has been honoured for his discoveries in the field of proteomics. The award, presented by the Human Proteome Organisation, recognises his pioneering work in decoding the ‘surfaceome’ – the totality of all proteins on the cell surface.

Alex’s research makes a major contribution to the development of mass spectrometry and integrative structural biology, and he is regarded as a leading international expert on cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS). He cultivates numerous collaborations throughout the world and is successful at attracting funding. In addition to his scientific achievements, he is highly committed to teaching and supports the interests of D-BIOL and IMSB in a variety of ways.

Semester project available in the Sauer group working with a marine microbial community

The Carvunis Group has officially joined IMSB. Welcome!

Semester project in bacterial gene regulation via phosphorylation available in the Trouillon group

The Snijder Lab is the winner in the category "Biggest Technology Impact of the Year" at the 2025 Precision Medicine Awards. Congrats!

The Willi Studer Prize, part of the bequest of entrepreneur Dr. h.c. Willi Studer, has been awarded annually since 1993 to the best graduates of each Master's programme at ETH Zurich. 

Kian received the award for his excellent achievements in the Master's programme in Biology (D-BIOL).  CONGRATULATIONS!

The grant was awarded for the project "A novel type of multimodal structural biomarkers for Parkinson's disease". Congratulations!

We are excited to announce that IMSB will welcome Anne-Ruxandra
Carvunis as a new Full Professor later this year! 

Congratulations and well done, Ben!

Berend was honored for his work “New approaches in precision medicine”. The prize, which serves the memory of Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker, a physician who died in 1972 in the town of Thalwil, honors outstanding scientific work in the field of cancer research.

Congrats!

Berend has been appointed as Faculty Professor and research group leader at the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering – BIIE. Congratulations and good luck!

He presented the lecture "Coordination of metabolism through metabolite-protein interactions" at the VAAM Annual Conference in Bochum.

The Hans Günter Schlegel Lecture honours outstanding scientific achievements in microbiology in Germany.

https://vaam.de/en/activities/awards-honours/hans-guenter-schlegel-lecture/