Tag: Press Release
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Pioneer Work in Spinal Cord Function Restoration
On May 24, 2023, Prof. Dr. Grégoire Courtine and his team of experts at EPFL have successfully published an article in Nature about their work on patients with spinal cord injuries, using a brain-spine interface to allow patients to walk again. The team of Prof. Courtine has received funding from PHRT.
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Hope for patients with a severe rare disease
New research offers potential benefits for those affected by the hereditary metabolic disease methylmalonic aciduria. By combining the results of multiple molecular analyses, scientists can better diagnose this rare and severe disease. In the future, an improved understanding of the disease might also improve treatment options.
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SPHN and PHRT organize the 2nd Joint Personalized Health Day Switzerland, “The future of data-driven medicine in Switzerland”
Bern, 24 August 2022. The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), an initiative of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, and Personalized Health & Related Tech-nologies (PHRT), a Strategic Focus Area of the ETH Domain, have organized the 2nd Joint Per-sonalized Health Day Switzerland. With more than 200 participants from research, hospitals, politics, and industry, the event informed and provided a platform for discussions about the future of personalized medicine in Switzerland.
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ETH Board approves second phase of PHRT for 2021–2024
The ETH Board has approved a second phase of Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT), one of the ETH Domain’s four strategic focus areas. PHRT will launch its next call for proposals at the beginning of 2021. Professor Bernd Wollscheid, chair of the PHRT Executive Committee, encourages ETH Domain researchers to build new competitive consortia at the intersection of clinical research and clinical practice in order to identify pertinent research questions early on.