En 2025, quatre scientifiques se sont vu·es recompensé·es par une bourse Ambizione du Fonds national suisse, leur permettant de rejoindre la communauté scientifique de la Faculté de biologie et de médecine (FBM) de l’Unil. Les subsides ont été attribués à Lily Fogg, Thomas Hitchcock, Alice Horisberger et Elisa Rioja Blanco.

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

GHT-SELEX—high-throughput SELEX with fragmented genomic DNA—shows that transcription factors can be rather particular about which genomic loci they bind, and that C2H2 zinc finger proteins often engage different fingers at different sites.

At its meeting on 20 and 21 May 2026 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed Stephen Quake, currently Professor at Stanford University, USA, as Full Professor of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at the D-BSSE and faculty member of the Basel Research Center for Child Health (BRCCH). A warm welcome, Stephen!

CREsted is an efficient and user-friendly toolbox for analysis, modeling and design of cell-type-specific enhancers across diverse species.

Locityper is a general-purpose genotyper that can efficiently genotype and analyze a diverse set of genes, such as hyperpolymorphic HLA genes, using both short-read and long-read whole-genome sequencing data.

Clair3 - Symphonizing pileup and full-alignment for deep learning-based long-read variant calling - HKU-BAL/Clair3