Category: Funding & Awards

Precision Medicine Award🏅

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And the Precision Medicine Award 2025 goes to… the Snijder Lab & Pharmacoscopy 🤩 For Biggest Technology Impact of the year!

🙏 Thank you Oxford Global and the international judges for this amazing recognition of our team effort to advance precision medicine by Pharmacoscopy. Another award that goes to the lab members past and present, our many wonderful clinical and research collaborators, our funders, and the patients and their loved ones for their trust and courage.

Also, a shout-out to Prevision Medicine and Graph Therapeutics for carrying the torch forward in precision oncology and immunology, respectively!

Berend wins Jucker Prize🏅

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I’m honored to have been awarded the Ernst Th. Jucker Prize 🏅 for our work advancing Precision Medicine – with this I join a fantastic list of past awardees. At the risk of being repetitive, I have my amazing team to thank for this cool award- thank you snijderlab members past and present 🙏!

The prize, named after Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker, honors outstanding contributions to cancer research. Dr. Ernst Jucker was a practicing physician and surgeon in the municipality of Thalwil in the canton of Zurich. He and his wife Alice transferred their inheritance to a foundation that provides an annual sum to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich (Ernst Jucker’s alma mater) to fund the prize.

I’ll give a public lecture with the award ceremony on the 30th of June 2025 – join if you’re in the neighborhood and curious to hear more about our work:

https://www.bioc.uzh.ch/en/calendar-of-events/agenda.html?event=63343

SNF Professorship extension

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We are thrilled to announce that the Swiss National Science Foundation has granted us the full extension to our ongoing SNF Professorship! We are extremely thankful to the SNSF for this continued support.

SNF Professorships are among the most prestigious SNF funding for young principle investigators. The project continues to systematically analyze the molecular and cellular systems that determine why people can respond differently to medications.

ETH Zurich Research Grant

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We’re thrilled to announce that the ETH Zurich has awarded us with an ETH Zurich Research Grant! ETH Grants are a competitive ETH-internal funding programme to promote world-​class research with the potential to result in fundamental new knowledge or technologies and exciting discoveries.

The grant will allow us to investigate the differences in behaviour and morphology of human inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) observed in different iPSC lines derived from the same human donor, as well as differences observed between iPSCs from different donors. The project builds on unique expertise by postdoc Sohyon Lee in the lab.

SNF Sinergia Grant

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We are thrilled to announce that the Snijder Lab has been awarded an SNF Sinergia grant, together with the labs of Prof. Dr. Inti Zlobec at the University of Bern, Dr. Maria Anisimova at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and Dr. María Rodríguez Martínez at IBM Research. Collectively we will work to advance our understanding of colorectal cancer.