New Institute Director: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Carole Bourquin
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Bürgi Prize: Dr. Maria Petrosino and Dr. Karim Zuhra!
The Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Bern is pleased to announce that the jury has selected the publication “Endogenously Produced Hydrogen Cyanide Serves as a Novel Mammalian Gasotransmitter” (DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01225-w) by Dr. Maria Petrosino and Dr. Karim Zuhra for the 2025 Bürgi Prize. This award recognizes the best original publication addressing a research question in the field of Experimental or Clinical Pharmacology, and we are proud to honor the important contributions of Dr. Petrosino and Dr. Zuhra.
Dr. Petrosino and Dr. Zuhra will present their research at the SSPT Spring Meeting on April 24, 2025, in Bern, Switzerland, where the award will be presented by Prof. Dr. Carole Bourquin, Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and president of the jury. We congratulate Dr. Petrosino and Dr. Zuhra on this well-deserved recognition and look forward to their presentation at the upcoming meeting.
For more information about the the SSPT Spring Meeting, please visit https://swisspharmtox.ch/en/events_infos.
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We congratulate Prof. Kaufmann on his media release!
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Kristína Žajdlíková (Clinical Pharmacology, Prof. Manuel Haschke & Dr. Vera van der Velpen) has received one of the poster prizes at the 34th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (PBA, Geneva, 9-12 Sept 2024).
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Roxana Manaila (lab of Prof. Huwiler / Prof. von Gunten) received the prize for the best poster presentation given by the Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSPT) at the Spring Meeting 2024 (Bern, April 18, 2024).
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Giselle Hevia Hernandez (lab of Prof. Stephan von Gunten) received a prize for the best poster (category Experimental Pharmacology), given by the Swiss Society of Experimental Pharmacology (SSEP), at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2024 (Lausanne, February 15, 2024).
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Pictures of the International Summer School 2024
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