We want to understand the molecular mechanisms of health and disease
We train and mentor PhD students and postdocs
We work on biological mechanisms that enable biomedical application
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Sep 28, 2023

FMI science prizes — winners 2023

The FMI just held its three-day “Annual Meeting” with all the institute’s scientists in the Swiss alpine resort Davos. As every year, a highlight of the event was the award ceremony for the three FMI internal science prizes — recognizing respectively the best thesis, the best postdoc study and an ingenious new method or tool. Learn more about the winners and their projects.

Sep 20, 2023

From postdoc to entrepreneur
Jul 18, 2023

Mouse study sheds light on how antipsychotics work

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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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Oct 05, 2023 - 16:00 - Biozentrum

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  Basel Seminars in Neuroscience - Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Oct 12, 2023 - 11:00 - FMI 530

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  Seminar - Oriane Mauger, Biocenter University of Basel
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Oct 19, 2023 - 16:00 - Biozentrum

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  Basel Seminars in Neuroscience - Vanessa Ruta, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Sep 21, 2023

Epigenetics, cryptorchidism, and infertility.

Hadziselimovic F, Verkauskas G, Stadler MB

Basic Clin Androl
Sep 7, 2023

Design principles for cyclin K molecular glue degraders.

Kozicka Z, Suchyta DJ, Focht V, Kempf G, Petzold G, Jentzsch M, Zou C, Di Genua C, Donovan KA, Coomar S, Cigler M, Mayor-Ruiz C, Schmid-Burgk JL, Häussinger D, Winter GE, Fischer ES, Slabicki M, Gillingham D, Ebert BL, Thomä NH

Nat Chem Biol
Sep 6, 2023

Molecularly targetable cell types in mouse visual cortex have distinguishable prediction error responses.

O'Toole SM, Oyibo HK, Keller GB

Neuron
Aug 16, 2023

From Thalidomide to Rational Molecular Glue Design for Targeted Protein Degradation.

Oleinikovas V, Gainza P, Ryckmans T, Fasching B, Thomä NH

Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol

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