L’Exil, toujours recommencé: Chronique de la frontière
Anthropologue et médecin, Didier Fassin est professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines, et directeur d’études à l’EHESS. Anne-Claire […]
Future Earth Program for Early-Phase Grants Advancing Sustainability Science
The increasing prominence of sustainability science stems from the realization that many of the most pressing global problems facing society are complex mixtures of economic, societal and environmental issues, and […]
2021 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award presented at ceremony in New York
The winners of the 2021 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award, Dean Knox and Geoffrey Supran, were presented with their awards at a ceremony on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at […]
Advancing personalized health: an interview with Jacob Corn
Personalized medicine is changing the way clinicians approach diagnosis and treatment by tailoring therapy to individual molecular and genetic profiles. While the idea of tailored medical treatment is not new, […]
Alwin Köhler awarded ERC Advanced Grant
NOMIS researcher Alwin Köhler has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to investigate how nuclear pore complexes remodel nuclear membranes to form functional channels. Alwin Köhler, group […]
Saadi Lahlou
Saadi Lahlou is chair in social psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), and director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (France). He is co-leading […]
Fostering collaboration: NOMIS and Collegium Helveticum unite to advance interdisciplinary research
Can collaboration across disciplines unlock answers to the challenges of our time? The NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium Helveticum believe it can. Together, they have initiated a partnership to support […]
Paul Linton awarded David Marr Medal
NOMIS researcher Paul Linton has been awarded the 2025 David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association (AVA) for his pioneering research on visual experience. The Applied Vision Association (AVA) […]
NOMIS scientist Dušan Borić sheds light on human migration in NY Times’ “An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube”
Unique sculptures date from the historical moment when two peoples and two cultures met on the banks of a section of the river, now known as the Iron Gates. By […]
NCEAS: Michael Schaepman’s collaborative biodiversity and remote sensing work is advancing ecosystem research
The collaborative work of NOMIS scientist Michael Schaepman has been highlighted in an article by Alex Jamis at NCEAS, “By air and sea, synthesis research is improving how scientists capture the […]
NCEAS: Michael Schaepman’s collaborative biodiversity and remote sensing work is advancing ecosystem research
The collaborative work of NOMIS scientist Michael Schaepman has been highlighted in an article by Alex Jamis at NCEAS, “By air and sea, synthesis research is improving how scientists capture the […]
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin is a 2018 NOMIS awardee and director of studies in anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS; Paris, France), and has been the James […]
Célia Lacaux
Célia Lacaux is a 2022 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award finalist. She is a postdoc at the Geneva University Neurocenter, Switzerland. Lacaux received her undergraduate degree from Aix-Marseille University […]
Geoffrey Supran
Geoffrey Supran is the 2021 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award finalist. He is a research fellow in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in Cambridge […]
Dean Knox
Dean Knox is the grand prize winner of the 2021 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award. He is assistant professor at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton […]
Ushering in the study and treatment of preclinical Alzheimer disease
Researchers have begun to characterize the subtle biological and cognitive processes that precede the clinical onset of Alzheimer disease (AD), and to set the stage for accelerated evaluation of experimental […]
Longer metaphase and fewer chromosome segregation errors in modern human than Neanderthal brain development
Since the ancestors of modern humans separated from those of Neanderthals, around 100 amino acid substitutions spread to essentially all modern humans. The biological significance of these changes is largely […]
A nation-wide, multi-center study on the quality of life of ALS patients in Germany
Improving quality of life (QoL) is central to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatment. This Germany-wide, multicenter cross-sectional study analyses the impact of different symptom-specific treatments and ALS variants on QoL. […]
Fibroblast Growth Factor 2-Mediated Regulation of Neuronal Exosome Release Depends on VAMP3/Cellubrevin in Hippocampal Neurons
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are endogenous membrane-derived vesicles that shuttle bioactive molecules between glia and neurons, thereby promoting neuronal survival and plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS) and contributing to […]
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of reprogramming
Despite the profound and rapid advancements in reprogramming technologies since the generation of the first induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in 2006[1], the molecular basics of the process and its […]
Advances in cellular reprogramming: Moving toward a reprieve from immunogenicity
Somatic cell nuclear reprogramming is opening new doors for the modeling of human disease phenotypes in vitro, the identification of novel therapeutic compounds and diagnostic factors as well as future […]