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• 2026-04-01 | AMIDD

  Interdisciplinarity in industrial research and in everyday life

  I had the pleasure to share some personal anecdotes and learning with teachers at the Gymnasium Muttenz in Basel-Land. The slides: Interdisziplinarität in der Industrieforschung und im Alltag.

• 2025-09-13 | AMIDD

  Applied Mathematics and Informatics In Drug Discovery (2025)

  The AMIDD course will run again at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Basel.The first lecture takes place on Friday, September the 19^th.

• 2025-05-21 | Bioinformatics Events

  Roche PMDA Summer School 2025

  The 4th Roche Predictive Modelling and Data Analytics (PMDA) Summer School shall take place between 4th and 8th of August, 2025. This year’s topic is leveraging protein abundance for drug discovery.

• 2025-04-30 | DrugDiscovery

  Public talk about target and modality selection in drug discovery

  Several lines of evidence suggest that target and modality selection are inseparable processes: biology and chemistry must be considered as one in drug discovery. I gave a talk at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH about this thought, thanks to the invite by Prof. Pedro Beltrao.

• 2024-10-07 | biology

  Micro RNA, Big Prize

  My sincere congratulations go to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation (source). The news reminds me of my PhD time, when I became fascinated by microRNAs.