News & Events
Ben Hale from the Snijder Group wins the ETH Medal for his outstanding PhD thesis!

Congratulations and well done, Ben!
Berend Snijder receives Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker Prize

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.
Berend Snijder appointed as Faculty Professor at the BIIE
Berend has been appointed as Faculty Professor and research group leader at the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering – BIIE. Congratulations and good luck!
Uwe Sauer elected to present the Hans Günther Schlegel Lecture 2025
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/
Picotti Group awarded grant from the EMPIRIS Foundation
The grant was awarded for the "Identification of structural biomarkers for Parkinson's disease in skin biopsies". Congratulations!
Kian Bigovic Villi starts his PhD at IMSB
Kian started his PhD in early January 2025, supervised by Julian Trouillon and Uwe Sauer. He will be working on the effects of post-translational modifications on transcription factor activity. Welcome back Kian, and all the best!
Paola Picotti new Head of Institute
As from January 2025, Paola will serve as the IMSB Chair and Pedro Beltrao as the Vice-Chair. A big thank you to Uwe Sauer for being such a great Institute Director for the last 10 years!
Ruedi Aebersold was honoured with the HUPO Pinnacle Lifetime Fellowship
Congratulations Ruedi!
EUPA Juan-Pablo Albar (JPA) Proteome Pioneer Award for Pedro Beltrao

Pedro received this award for his leading and long-standing involvement in promoting the principles of sharing and integrating resources for the development of excellent research in the Proteomics field.
SNF Ambizione Grant for Julian Trouillon

Julian obtained a competitive Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation that will enable him to start his own lab on transcriptional regulation at IMSB for the next 4 years. Congrats Julian!
Pedro Beltrao has been elected as EMBO Member

EMBO is an organization of leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. It announced the election of 120 researchers, one of which is Pedro. Through this lifelong honour, EMBO Members and Associated Members are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the life sciences.
Master/Semester computational project: Predicting transcription factors input signals using network analysis
In this project, we aim at inferring input signals affecting transcription factors activity using computational analysis of regulatory and metabolic networks.
Ruedi Aebersold and Matthias Mann receive the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2024

Ruedi Aebersold, the founder of IMSB, was awarded the prestigious Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics. He receives it together with Matthias Mann (MPI Munich) "... because they pioneered the field of proteomics and revolutionized the way in which scientists study proteins today".
Mass Spectrometry in the Life Sciences Award 2024 to Nicola Zamboni

The prize by the German Society of Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) honors outstanding method developments in and applications of mass spectrometry in the life sciences.
Sauer Zamboni group achieves LEAF sustainability certification!

The group was one of 19 labs across ETH Zurich to be certified in the LEAF pilot project.
Congratulations to Stephan Durot for passing his PhD defense
Stephan's thesis pivots on the integrated analysis of endothelial cells from different vascular beds.
Adriano Rutz wins the Gold Trophy of the National ORD Prize 2023! Well done!

The prize is awarded by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences in recognition of innovative and impactful practices in the field of Open Research Data (ORD).
We welcome Jonas Runde as a new PhD student in the lab!
Jonas started his PhD in the group in December, working on protein phosphorylation and post-translational modifications in E. coli. Welcome back Jonas, and viel Erfolg!
Tomek Diederen defends his PhD Thesis
We congratulate Tomek for successfully defending his thesis on "Simulation-based metabolic flux inference" which, by his own words, all boils down to clouds vs. points. Well done!