25.08.2023 Congratulations to Kasimir Kienbeck for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award in section Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the SCS Fall Meeting 2023.
28.06.2023 We are very proud to announce that three of our group members were considered for an UZH Grant! Carla Ferreira Rodrigues and Kasimir Kienbeck received an UZH Candoc Grant and Niko Lindlar was one of the UZH Postdoc Grant recipients. Very well done!
01.02.2023 Congratulations to Maria Reichenbach for winning the best oral presentation award at the CMSZH Retreat 2023 in Charmey!
20.10.2022 Maria Reichenbach successfully participated in MoTEC in Indianapolis. She not only gave a presentation, but also received a poster prize for her excellent work. Very well done Maria!
08.09.2022 Congratulations to Esra for winning the poster prize at the SCS Fall Meeting and for receiving the opportunity to publish an article in CHIMIA. Great job!
02.05.2022 And again! Congratulations to Esra Ahunbay for receiving the Travel Award of the Graduate School of Chemical and Molecular Sciences Zurich (CMSZH)! Very well done!
17.04.2022 Esra Ahunbay has received the SCS Travel Award for her contribution "Watching the self-splicing of a wild-type group II intron with single-molecule resolution"). Congratulations Esra, we are very happy for you!
16.02.2022 Richard Cunha did an excellent job in the physical chemistry CHE 153 course as his students selected him for the CMSZH Teaching Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts!
03.08.2021 Esra Anhunbay has once again demonstrated her poster presentation skills. We are therefore proud to announce that she won the Poster Award at the RNA 2021 (26th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society). In addition, she achieved 2nd place of the Poster Award competition at the Doktorandentag 2021. Keep it up!
16.06.2021 Congratulations to Maria Reichenbach for receiving a Forschungskredit for her project "Investigation of the molecular basis of the Moco Riboswitch". May this award boost your research and lead to some great results!
15.12.2020 Moritz Durtschi apparently did a great job as assistant in the MEP as his students chose him to receive a CMSZH Teaching Award. Congratulations!
18.06.2020 Congratulations to Esra Ahunbay for having been awarded with an UZH Forschungskredit for her project "Monitoring the self-catalyzed splicing of a group II intron with single-molecule sensitivity".
25.06.2019 Congratulations to Richard Cunha for having been awarded with an UZH Forschungskredit for his project "Biomolecular Simulation–Experiment Mutualism: An Integrated Approach to RNA and Metal Ions".
21.09.2018 Fabio Steffen won the Best Oral Presentation Award in section Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology at this year's SCS Fall Meeting. Well done!
14.08.2018 Zenghui Wang has been awarded with an EuroBIC14 Travel Award. Congratulations!
21.06.2018 Congratulations to Ilaria Przytula-Mally, who has received the UZH Forschungskredit for her project "Structural studies of different RNA ribozymes and G-quadruplexes using X-ray crystallography"!
14.05.2018 Fabio Steffen receives the CMSZH travel award 2018 (Merck) Congratulations!
20.03.2018 Congratulations to Ilaria Przytula-Mally, Fabio Amadei and Fabio Steffen for each being awarded travel grants from the RNA Society!
20.03.2018 Fabio Amadei receives the LS2 travel grant. Great job!
04.08.2017 Zenghui Wang has won the Best Oral Presentation in ICBIC 18. Congratulations!
06.07.2017 Fabio Steffen recieved the UZH Forschungskredit for his project "Single-molecule FRET guided modeling of non-coding RNAs". Congratulations!
18.06.2017 Fabio Amadei gave a talk and was awarded the poster prize at the Tenth Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzyme Conference
11.05.2017 Zenghui Wang has been selected to give an oral presentation and awarded a travel grant for ICBIC 2018 Florianópolis, Brazil. Congratulations!
10.05.2017 Congratulations to Fabio Amadei FEBS 2017, Ilaria Przytula-Mally ISBC 2017 for being awarded travel grants!
09.05.2017 Fabio Steffen has been awarded the CMSZH 2017 by Bruker. Way to go!
03.10.2016 Elena Alberti won the poster award at the 11th Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium. Congratulations!
12.06.2016 Fabio Steffen was awarded the semester prize of the Faculty of Science, University of Zürich for his master thesis -- congratulations!
01.06.2016 Maya Gulotti-Georgieva and Fabio Amadei were each awarded a Forschungskredit grant -- congratulations!
06.05.2016 Richard Börner and his colleagues Ulrike Rieder, Natasha Arora, Nikolas Friedrich and Juan Miguel Escobar Restrepo were awarded a GRC Grant of the Graduate Campus -- way to go!
15.04.2016 Richard Börner was awarded a VAUZ Tagungsfond for the prolongation of the PostDocDay project - way to go!
16.03.2016 Roland K. O. Sigel and Richard Boerner as co-applicant received a research grant from the Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der UZH - congrats!
16.11.2015 Susann Zelger-Paulus and Richard Börner have been both accepted for the 10th Microscopy Winterschool 2016 - Practical Course in Advanced 3D Light & Electron Microscopy in Zurich.
05.10.2015 Fabio Steffen wins the 1st poster prize at the 10th Annual Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium and the Albert Hofmann Award Lecture - congratulation!
01.10.2015 Roland K. O. Sigel has been elected Secretary of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) 2016-2020!
03.06.2015 Elena, Susann, Alicia and Richard were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship -- congratulations.
01.11.2014 Richard Börner was awarded a Tagungsfond of the VAUZ -- congratulations.
11.10.2014 Richard Börner was awarded a GRC Grant of the Graduate Campus -- congratulations.
11.09.2014 Erica Fiorini wins the SCS-DSM Best Poster Prize in the category Medical and Biological Chemistry at the SCS Fall meeting 2014 - congratulation!
28.08.2014 Bhaumik Dave wins the EuroBIC 12 poster prize for his contribution "Influence of Hg(II) on the intercalation of [Ru(bpy)2(dppz)]2+ to DNA" - congratulations!
10.07.2014 Bhaumik, Marianthi and Mokrane are selected to participate in the Summer School "Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 7th to 14th 2014 - Congratulations!
19.05.2014 Mélodie Hadzic, Alicia Dominguez and Richard Börner were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship - congratulations!
10.10.2013 Anita Schmitz wins the Poster prize (1st place) at the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium 2013 - congratulation!
01.10.2013 Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek is awarded a Marie-Curie-IEF Fellowship to continue her postdoc in our lab - congratulation!
01.07.2013 Susann, M?élodie, Helena, Daniela Donghi, and Danny were each awarded a Forschungskredit scholarship -- congratulation.
24.05.2013 Miriam is selected for the EMBO Practical Course "Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biomacromolecules by solution NMR", Basel, Switzerland, July 20-27, 2013 -- congratulation!!
15.04.2013 Silke and Sebastian are selected to participate in the Summer School "Metals in Biology", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, May 12-19, 2013 -- congratulation!!
13.09.2012 Sebastian wins the 2nd prize for his talk at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society -- congratulation!!
01.06.2012 Sebastian was awarded a prolongation of the Forschungskredit and the CMSZH Travel Award -- congratulation.
01.06.2012 Magdalena Rowinska-Zyrek, is awarded a Sciex Fellowship to do her postdoc in our lab - congratulation!
18.04.2012 Daniela Donghi wins the first Poster Prize at the Eurasia-12 meeting showing her and Maria's k-z structure - congratulation!
01.03.2012 Joachim Schnabl has been selcted to give an oral presentation at the Eurasia-12 Meeting in Corfu, Greece - congratulation!
05.12.2011 Miriam Skilandat wins the 1st Poster Prize at ISABC-11 in Barcelona. Congratulation!
10.10.2011 Miriam Skilandat wins a poster prize at the 6th Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium. Congratulation!
25.08.2011 Eva Freisinger has been awarded a two-year extension of her SNF-Fö?rderungsprofessur. Congratulation!!
18.08.2011 Daniela Donghi has been awarded an Ambizione fellowship by the SNF and will start her independent research career in December 2011. Congratulation!!
26.04.2011 Sebastian K?önig was awarded the Forschungskredit scholarship and has been accepted for the BASF In