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 […]
Trailblazing scientists presented with 2023 NOMIS Award
The NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award, which recognizes pioneering researchers for their exceptional contributions to science, was presented to David Autor of MIT and Anne Brunet of Stanford University […]
Displaced people’s perilous journeys: border violence as a public health issue
NOMIS Awardee Didier Fassin and sociologist Anne-Claire Defossez have authored an article addressing a growing public health concern—border violence—in a special issue of The Lancet. To mark its bicentennial year, […]
Artificial intelligence will reduce inequality
NOMIS Awardee David Autor, in an interview with Armin Müller, says we will not run out of work, and we can influence how new technologies affect work. The interview appeared […]
Rethinking the Role of Cognitive Biases in Delusion-Like Beliefs
Examining the relationships between delusion-like beliefs in the general population and cognitive biases associated with these tasks, NOMIS researcher Ryan McKay and colleagues suggest that some seemingly well-established relationships between […]
Origins Federation – A gathering of minds
Researchers from the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich, including NOMIS–ETH Fellow Craig Walton, emerge from the inaugural conference of the Origins Federation with insightful perspectives […]
Reducing stress on T cells makes them better cancer fighters
NOMIS–Salk Fellow Anna-Maria Globig and NOMIS researcher Susan Kaech, together with their colleagues at the Salk Institute, have found that stress hormones released by nerves exhaust immune cells in humans […]
Call for applications to the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
The 2023 call for applications for the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life is open! Applications are open until 10 November 2023 at 17:00 […]
Neurodegeneration enters the era of functional genomics
NOMIS Awardee Adriano Aguzzi and colleague Martin Kampmann have published a review article in Science exploring progress in treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. They ask the question, “What accounts for the […]