SNSF Projects at the University of Bern

NFS PlanetS - Origin, evolution and characterisation of planets
Director: Willy Benz (Physics Institute)
Duration: 01.06.2014 - 31.05.2026

NFS RNA und Disease - Understanding the role of RNA biology in disease mechanisms
Director: Oliver Mühlemann (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Duration: 01.05.2014 - 30.04.2026

NFP 82 – Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Uni Bern participation

NFP 80 – Covid-19 in Society
Uni Bern projects

NFP 79 - Advancing 3R – Research, Animals and Society
Uni Bern projects

NRP 77 - Digital Transformation
Uni Bern projects

Designing Inhibitors Against Clostridial Pore-Forming Toxins: A Structure-Based Approach (DISPERSE)
Co-PI: Benoît Zuber
Duration: 01.04.2024 – 31.03.2028

Intelligent 4D ultra-high-sensitive PET Imaging for early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Co-PI: Axel, Rominger
Duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2027

The Food-Medicine Continuum in Vervet Monkeys: Investigations on the Interplay between Diet Quality, Stress Coping, and the Endocannabinoid System
Co-PI: Jürg Gertsch
Duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.10.2027

Hydrography of Mesopotamia. Rivers and Channels in Babylonia from the 4th to the 1st Millennium BCE
Co-PI: Miroslav Novak
Duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.10.2027

Deep biosphere-geosphere interactions at the top of the world (DIGESTED): An interdisciplinary approach to interpret a Myr climate record from Lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau)
Co-PI: Hendrik Vogel (Institute of Geology)
Duration: 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2027

Commonification: transition pathways for urban sustainability (COMMONPATHS)
Co-PI: Jean-David Gerber
Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.03.2027

Exploring the Cellular Impact of Neural Oscillations
Co-PI: Antoine Adamantidis (Clinical Neuroscience)
Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026

Dynamic consortium interactions that establish the microbiota during weaning
Co-PI: Andrew Macpherson (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)
Duration: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2026

HORAO - Polarimetric visualization of Healthy brain fiber tracts for tumor delineation during neurosurgery
Co-PI: Philippe Schucht (Department of Neurosurgery)
Duration: 01.04.2022 - 31.03.2026

PROMETEX: Metabolically-instructed personalized therapy selection for prostate cancer
Co-PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department for BioMedical Research)
Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2025

Sociotechnological Breakthrough of Thermal Energy Storage - a new Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment (SOTES)
Co-PI: Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Institute of Political Science)
Duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2025

Unravel Principles Of Self-Organization In Injured Tissue
Co-PI: Eliane J. Müller (Department for BioMedical Research)
Duration: 31.06.2021 - 31.05.2024

Xeno2Cure - advanced engineering and testing of organ donor pigs
Co-PI: Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Institute of Political Science)
Duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.03.2025

Functional chemoinformatic modelling of the host cell metabolome to fight apicomplexan parasites
Co-PI: Volker Heussler (Institute of Cell Biology)
Duration: 01.03.2021 - 28.02.2025

Mediating the Ecological Imperative: Formats and Modes of Engagement
Co-PI: Peter Schneemann (Institute of Art History)
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024

Evidence-based Transformation in Pesticide Governance
Co-PI: Karin Ingold (Institute of Political Science)
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024

Trans-omic approach to colorectal cancer: an integrative computational and clinical perspective
Co-PI: Inti Zlobec (Institute of Pathology)
Duration: 01.10.2020 - 30.09.2024

Real time exploration of GTPase - cytoskeletal feedback underlying contractile actomyosin systems
Co-PI: Olivier Pertz (Institute of Cell Biology)
Duration: 01.09.2019 - 31.08.2024

A Fragility Fracture Integrative Risk Model for CT Recycling
Co-PI: Philippe Zysset (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)
Duration: 01.08.2019 - 31.01.2025

Morbillivirus cell entry machinery: mechanisms, structures and antiviral drug discovery
Co-PI: Dimitrios Fotiadis (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine)
Duration: 01.04.2019 - 31.03.2024

“Lege Iosephum!” Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages
Co-PI: Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (Institute of Classical Philology)
Duration: 01.04.2019 - 31.03.2024

20,000 years of evolution and ecosystem dynamics in the world’s largest tropical lake reconstructed from sediment cores, fossils and ancient DNA
Co-PI: Ole Seehausen (Ecology & Evolution)
Duration: 31.03.2019 - 30.09.2024

Predict and Monitor Epilepsy After a First Seizure: The Swiss-First Study
Co-PI: Roland Wiest (Clinical Neuroscience)
Duration: 01.02.2019 - 31.01.2025

Photonuclear reactions (PHOR): breakthrough research in radionuclides for theranostics
Co-PI: Andreas Türler (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Duration: 01.09.2018 - 31.08.2024

A list of the 23 Eccellenza Grants und Professorial Fellowships is available on the SNSF Data Portal (status 08.03.2024).

A list of the 4 SNSF Professors is available on the SNSF Data Portal (status 08.03.2024).

A list of the 8 PRIMA projects is available on the SNSF Data Portal (status 08.03.2024).

A list of the 39 Ambizione projects is available on the SNSF Data Portal (status 08.03.2024).

Advanced Grants

BURNice
Project title: Global biomass burning reconstruction using ethane in polar ice cores
PI: Hubertus Fischer (Physics Institute)

Memory Trace
Project title: Strengthening memory formation for retrieval despite amnesia
PI: Katharina Henke (Institute of Psychology)

FITNESS
Project title: Forward-In-Time Natural Experimental Study of Selection
PI: Catherine Peichel (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)

Consolidator Grants

FiRES
Project title: Building Wildfire Resilient Communities in Europe
PI: Christine Eriksen (Institute of Geography)

Project title: Religious Interaction and Co-Production: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Entangled Early Medieval Occident
PI: Katharina Heyden (Institute of Historical Theology)

Project title: Searching for physics beyond the standard model in low-energy precision observables
PI: Martin Hoferichter (Institute for Theoretical Physics)

GLOBO
Project title: Global Bones. Entangled Histories, Transfers and Translations in the Early Modern Age
PI: Urte Krass (Institute of Art History)

Starting Grants

Project title: Integrating modeling and experiments to study species coexistence in metacommunities
PI: Xiang-Yi Li Richter (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)

Project title: The emergence of self-harm in the first decades of life: A biopsychosocial perspective on developmental dynamics, risk and protective factors
PI: Annekatrin Steinhoff (Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste)

CHARIBDIS
Project title: Charting Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution via the ice sheet's internal stratigraphy
PI: Johannes Sutter (Physics Institute)

TraIL
Project title: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions
PI: Serena Tolino (Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies)

Project title: Mechanisms of peripheral vision in complex decision-making
PI: Christian Vater (Institute of Sport Science)

ACTUAL
Project title: Advancing research on extreme humid heat and health
PI: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)

Project title: Coordination of host-microbe interactions by crosstalk with anti-glycan antibodies in inflammatory bowel diseases
PI: Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Department for BioMedical Research)

A list of the 15 current SNSF Postdoctoral Fellows is available on the SNSF Data Portal (status 08.03.2024).