Two of the approved projects, including the largest in Switzerland, will be carried out in the BSL-3 high-security laboratory of the Institute for Infectious Diseases of the University of Bern at sitem-insel, the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine.
Two of the approved projects, including the largest in Switzerland, will be carried out in the BSL-3 high-security laboratory of the Institute for Infectious Diseases of the University of Bern at sitem-insel, the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine. Pascal Gugler - The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) supports fifteen Bernese Covid-19 research projects totalling 6.5 million Swiss francs. These should contribute in helping to develop solutions to combat the pandemic in Switzerland. The projects deal with topics ranging from the effects of Covid-19 on the cardiovascular system to the use of artificial intelligence in the treatment of Covid-19 patients in hospital. As a result of the corona pandemic, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has allocated substantial funds for research purposes: in spring it launched a special call for proposals on coronaviruses with an amount of 10 million francs, followed by a national research programme (NRP 78) endowed with 20 million francs. In both calls for proposals, research teams from the University of Bern and the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, performed outstandingly. In NRP 78, for example, an international project under Bernese leadership was the only one in Switzerland to receive maximum funding of CHF 2 million.
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