2023

The Young Scientist Lecture at the D-CHAB is held by young scientists who have performed excellent research at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (IPW). This year, Nicole Zoratto from the Leroux Group, gave the lecture on December 6, 2023, and presented her research on bioinspired, low-​cost devices for minimally invasive blood sampling. 

Amy E. Fraley, Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH, is appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the D-CHAB. Her research focuses on the biosynthesis of natural products and combines fundamental evolutionary questions with new biotechnological applications. Hansjörg Grützmacher, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at D-CHAB, is going to retire in July 2024. Hansjörg Grützmacher joined ETH in 1995. His research focuses on new molecules with unusual bonding properties.

Prof. Andrea Burden and her colleague Dominik Stämpfli work together with Kantonsspital Baden to find ways of preventing patients from becoming dependent on opioid painkillers.

On the road to recovery, patients come into contact with clinicians from a whole range of disciplines. Students of medicine at ETH Zurich learn about the importance of targeted collaboration between these disciplines in a new training module developed in collaboration with a hospital and a nursing college as well as with the coordinators of pharmacy-​related degree programmes at ETH.

Researchers from ETH Zurich, among them Maksym Kovalenko, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, and Stanford have taken snapshots of the crystal structure of perovskite nanocrystals as it was deformed by excited electrons. To their surprise, the deformation straightened out the skewed crystal structure rather than making it more disordered.