News Listing

As a response to the Sars-COV-2 pandemic, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) made a special call for research on coronaviruses. One of the projects selected for funding is the collaborative project by the NCCR RNA & Disease groups of Sebastian Leidel, Ramesh Pillai and Volker Thiel...

As of the beginning of May 2020, Volker Thiel joined the NCCR RNA & Disease as a Full Principal Investigator and Ataman Sendoel as a Junior Principal Investigator.

Volker Thiel is Full Professor for Veterinary Virology at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern and Head of Virology at the...

Press Release / Medienmitteilung / Communiqués de presse Universität Bern
Researchers in virology and veterinary bacteriology at the University of Bern have cloned the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The synthetic clones are being used by research groups worldwide to test corona samples, find...

FMI News Article
Genes that time the transition to adulthood are well-studied in the roundworm C. elegans, and at least partially conserved in mammals, where they regulate the onset of puberty. Juvenile worms turn into adults when a protein called LIN-29 accumulates in sufficient amounts. By...

IRB News Article
A research team led by the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Bellinzona, affiliated to the Università della Svizzera italiana, has identified a molecular network required to balance the responses of human lymphocytes. The activities of these immune cells must be...