Janelle Ayres elected to American Academy of Microbiology
NOMIS researcher and Salk Institute Professor Janelle Ayres has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s Fellowship Class of 2024. Fellows of the Academy, an honorific leadership group within […]
ETH Zurich announces 2024 NOMIS–ETH Fellows
ETH Zurich has announced the three postdoctoral fellows who will join the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) at ETH as part of the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program. David […]
Call for applications to NOMIS–ISTA Fellowship Program
The NOMIS Foundation and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have opened a new call for proposals for the NOMIS–ISTA Fellowship Program, an interdisciplinary basic research program for […]
Glacier shrinkage is causing a “green transition”
Glacier-fed streams are undergoing a process of profound change, according to NOMIS researcher Tom Battin and other EPFL scientists in a paper appearing in Nature Geoscience. This conclusion is based […]
Do we have cosmic dust to thank for life on Earth?
It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted […]
Combination of group competition and repeated interactions promotes cooperation
How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? NOMIS Board Member Ernst Fehr, together with other researchers from the Universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Konstanz, have challenged two prevailing explanations – […]
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris is among around 250 researchers who conducted a global study to investigate people’s motivations when it comes to beliefs and behaviors about climate change. Their research […]
Lung cancer hijacks immune cell metabolism to fuel its own growth
NOMIS Center Director Susan Kaech and NOMIS Fellow Anna-Maria Globig, together with fellow scientists at the Salk Instistute, have discovered that lung adenocarcinoma cancer cells steer macrophage lipid metabolism to […]
Karl Deisseroth, Brain-Wide Dynamics project featured in NOMIS Insight film
The NOMIS Foundation has released its third Insight film, which features 2017 NOMIS Awardee Karl Deisseroth and depicts the journey of his recently concluded NOMIS research project, Discovering the Causal Principles Underlying Brain-Wide […]
NOMIS, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute launch new fellowship program
Enabling early-career researchers to study animal behavior in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, the NOMIS Foundation and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have launched the […]
New global criteria for improved diagnosis of pediatric sepsis
Diagnosis of sepsis in children has been improved based on new research findings by NOMIS researcher Luregn Schlapbach and colleagues. An international research team co-led by the University Children’s Hospital […]
Ronald Evans honored with Japan Prize
NOMIS Awardee and Salk Professor Ronald Evans has been named the 2024 recipient of the Japan Prize in the field of Medical Science and Pharmaceutical Science. The Japan Prize Foundation awards […]
Can this fish help stop aging?
NOMIS Awardee Anne Brunet’s groundbreaking research into aging was featured in an article in Switzerland’s Tagesanzeiger. Brunet and her lab have pioneered the naturally short-lived African killifish as a promising […]
Deep insights
The work of NOMIS researcher Martin Pilhofer, who holds the NOMIS-supported Professorship of Cryo-Electron Microscopy at ETH Zurich, was profiled in an article in Uplift, an ETH Foundation magazine. Pilhofer’s […]
NOMIS Award: Creating new sparks in science
The NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award is the topic of a recently published advertorial in Science. The 2023 NOMIS Awardees, Anne Brunet and David Autor, explain how the NOMIS […]
NOMIS Insight film features Tony Wyss-Coray, Brain Rejuvenation project
Marking the completion of the Brain Rejuvenation Factors From Blood project, the NOMIS Foundation has released an Insight film featuring NOMIS Awardee Tony Wyss-Coray. Created in collaboration with Vollformat, the […]
2023 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award winners announced
Science/AAAS and the NOMIS Foundation have announced the winners of the 2023 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award, which recognizes bold early-career researchers who ask fundamental questions at the intersection […]
Genetic architecture may be key to using peacekeeping immune cells to treat autoimmunity or fight cancer
NOMIS researcher Ye Zheng, former NOMIS Fellow Zhi Liu and fellow researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered that Foxp3 is essential for creating the unique chromatin architecture of regulatory […]
Peripheral visual information affects choice
NOMIS Awardee Antonio Rangel and colleagues have shown that peripheral visual information is crucial in facilitating good decisions and suggest that individuals might be influenceable by settings in which only […]
Giving early-career scientists the chance to chase untouchable ideas
The NOMIS Fellowship Programs at ETH Zurich, ISTA and the Salk Institute have been featured in an advertorial in Science. NOMIS Fellows David Brückner, Anna-Maria Globig, Maayan Levy, Zhi Liu and Craig […]
Call for applications to the NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program
Applications are now open for the NOMIS–Gladstone Fellowship Program at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND). This interdisciplinary training and research program offers exceptional postdoctoral scientists the freedom to […]