News Universität Zürich – Fokus Innovation
UZH News beleuchten die kritischen Fragen unserer Zeit und die Forschung an der UZH, die zu zukunftsweisenden Lösungen für unsere Gesellschaft beiträgt. Nachfolgend UZH News zum Schwerpunkt Innovation:
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New Skin for Burn Victims
Researchers at UZH have been working on bio-engineered skin grafts for over 15 years, leading to the founding of spin-off Cutiss that produces living skin tissue from the patients’ own cells.
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“Innovations need to make it into the clinic”
The Wyss Zurich Translational Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The platform provides support to help first-class research projects make the step to clinical trials and progress to the founding of a startup company.
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Back to the Big Bang
UZH physicist Ben Kilminster designs the most precise parts of the enormous CERN detectors to look for flaws in the physical models used to explain the beginnings of the universe.
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Sleepless in Dübendorf
Students spent 30 hours working meticulously on business ideas for space. The Starlab Space Mission Hackathon shows the level of networking that goes into UZH’s commitment to supporting cooperation between research and industry in the aerospace sector.
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Strengthening Supply Chain Management with AI and Mathematical Insight
Funded by a BRIDGE Discovery Grant, UZH physicist Nicola Serra and ETH mathematician Alessio Figalli plan to pair optimal transport theory with AI to fortify supply-chain weak spots.
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Pulling Together
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to be able to collaborate and develop solutions across disciplinary boundaries. This is a skill that can be learned. More than 150 students have already participated in a UZH Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.
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UZH Device Searches for Light Dark Matter
Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers have now used this capability to search for light dark matter particles.
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Back in European Business
Two ERC Starting Grants were awarded to UZH scientists, as researchers based in Switzerland are once again eligible for Horizon Europe funding.
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When AI Meets Ancient Rome
Researchers in classical studies have developed a tool that creates AI images of antiquity that are grounded in history, offering fresh perspectives.
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Think Big
How can Switzerland continue to grow as a leading hub for science-based innovation? High-profile leaders from the economy, science and politics gathered at an event organized by the Deep Tech Nation Switzerland Foundation at UZH to discuss this challenge.