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 83 – Gender Medicine and Health
Uni Bern Projekte

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

Intelligent 4D ultra-high-sensitive PET Imaging for early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Co-PI: Axel Rominger
Duration: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2028

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

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 – 31.01.2028

Hydrography of Mesopotamia. Rivers and Channels in Babylonia from the 4th to the 1st Millennium BCE
Co-PI: Miroslav Novak
Duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.01.2028

Exploring the Cellular Impact of Neural Oscillations
Co-PI: Antoine Adamantidis (Clinical Neuroscience)
Duration: 01.09.2023 – 31.08.2027

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: 01.04.2023 – 31.03.2027

PROMETEX: Metabolically-instructed personalized therapy selection for prostate cancer
Co-PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department for BioMedical Research)
Duration: 01.11.2021 – 31.10.2026

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 – 31.08.2026

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

Functional chemoinformatic modelling of the host cell metabolome to fight apicomplexan parasites
Co-PI: Volker Heussler (Institute of Cell Biology)
Duration: 01.03.2021 – 28.02.2026

Unravel Principles Of Self-Organization In Injured Tissue
Co-PI: Eliane J. Müller (Department for BioMedical Research)
Duration: 01.06.2021 – 31.12.2025

Xeno2Cure - advanced engineering and testing of organ donor pigs
Co-PI: Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Institute of Political Science)
Duration: 01.04.2021 – 31.12.2025

Trans-omic approach to colorectal cancer: an integrative computational and clinical perspective
Co-PI: Inti Zlobec (Institute of Pathology)
Duration: 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2025

A list of the Eccellenza Grants is available on the SNSF Data Portal.

A list of the PRIMA projects is available on the SNSF Data Portal.

A list of the Ambizione projects is available on the SNSF Data Portal.

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

Project title: Resisting Human Herosion
PI: Elisa Fornalé (World Trade Institute)
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Project title: Worldly Indeterminacy
PI: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Institute of Philosophy)
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Project title: Assessing past and future forest responses to climate change impacts using ancient DNA
PI: Christoph Schwörer (Institute of Plant Sciences)
ARIaDNA

Project title: Ageing and Old Age in the 4th–6th cent. Roman Empire: Religious, Legal, Social and Physical Dimensions
PI: Anna Usacheva (Institute of Historical Theology)
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Project title: Searching for physics beyond the standard model in low-energy precision observables
PI: Martin Hoferichter (Institute for Theoretical Physics)
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Project title: Building Wildfire Resilient Communities in Europe
PI: Christine Eriksen (Institute of Geography)
FiRES

Project title: Religious Interaction and Co-Production: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Entangled Early Medieval Occident
PI: Katharina Heyden (Institute of Historical Theology)
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Project title: Global Bones. Entangled Histories, Transfers and Translations in the Early Modern Age
PI: Urte Krass (Institute of Art History)
GLOBO

Starting Grants

Project title: Rescuing the untapped paleogenomic information preserved in ice caves to disclose long-term genetic variability of mountain vegetation
PI: Maria Leunda Esnaola (Institute of Plant Sciences)
GENICA

Project title: Through a Glass, Darkly: How to Study Authoritarian Regimes
PI: Franziska Keller (Institute of Communication and Media Studies)
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Project title: Cracking the neural code shaping emotional memories during sleep
PI: Mattia Aime (Department of Physiology)
REMind

Project title: Pediatric digital health towards data-driven precision therapy
PI: Sarah Brüningk (Department of Radio-Oncology)
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Project title: Bit Philology
PI: Frau Elena Spadini (Walter Benjamin Kolleg)
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Project title: Moving up or stepping down? The influence of social closure mechanisms on workplace career development in the intersection between gender, migration and social background
PI: Benita Combet (Institute of Social Anthropology)
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Project title: Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Mathematics
PI: Eleonora Sammarchi (Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies)
MediMath

Project title: Range of influence of staphylococcal phages in bacterial populations
PI: Elena Gomez Sanz (Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology)
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Project title: Exploring the role of the prefrontal cortex in remembering and forgetting
PI: Jessica Peter (University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
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Project title: Access to the Chemical Makeup of Europa's Presumed Habitats
PI: Audrey Vorburger (Physics Institute)
Plumes

Project title: Leveraging water isotope observations to establish robust constraints for precipitation efficiency
PI: Franziska Scholder-Aemisegger (Institute of Geography)
PERISCOPE

Projekttitel: Improving diagnoses by understanding the collaborative and cognitive processes of medical teams
PI: Juliane Eva Kämmer (Departement of Emergency Medicine)
CoMind

Project title: Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: Investigation of new mechanisms and therapeutic targets
PI: Camilla Schinner (Department for BioMedical Research)
ACTT

Project title: Understanding Socio-Economic Complexity in Eastern Mediterranean Protohistory: Dynamics of Production, Technology and Territorial Networks on Cyprus during the 2nd Millennium BCE
PI: Teresa Bürge (Institute of Archaeological Sciences)
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Project title: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions
PI: Serena Tolino (Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies)
TraIL

Project title: The Circumference of Violence – Tracing the normalisation and brutalisation of violence across Europe’s shifting external borders
PI: Charles Heller (Institute of Sport Science)
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Project title: Mechanisms of peripheral vision in complex decision-making
PI: Christian Vater (Institute of Sport Science)
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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 (University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
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Project title: Charting Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution via the ice sheet's internal stratigraphy
PI: Johannes Sutter (Physics Institute)
CHARIBDIS

Project title: Integrating modeling and experiments to study species coexistence in metacommunities
PI: Xiang-Yi Li Richter (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
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Project title: Advancing research on extreme humid heat and health
PI: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
ACTUAL

Project title: Coordination of host-microbe interactions by crosstalk with anti-glycan antibodies in inflammatory bowel diseases
PI: Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Department for BioMedical Research)
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Project title: Alcohol-specific Inhibition Training in Alcohol Use Disorder: Biomarkers, Effective Application, Moderating Effects of Brain Plasticity
PI: Maria Stein (Institute of Psychology)
A-BEAM

Project title: Women's Global 1990s: Networks, Activism, and Politics
PI: Sibylle Marti (Institute of History)
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Project title: Policing, Security, and Structural Inequality: An Ethical Inquiry
PI: Jennifer Page (Institute of Philosophy)
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A list of the current SNSF Postdoctoral Fellows is available on the SNSF Data Portal.