Investigators identify new genetic variant protective against Alzheimer’s disease
In a great collaborative effort, NOMIS researcher Eric Reiman and study leaders Francisco Lopera, Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, Diego Sepulveda-Falla and Yakeel Quiroz, together with their colleagues, have discovered a pathway for […]
Susan Kaech elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NOMIS researcher Susan Kaech has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. LA JOLLA—Salk Institute Professor Susan Kaech, director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, […]
NOMIS releases first NOMIS Insight film featuring Manos Tsakiris, BIAS project
Marking the completion of the Body and Image in Arts and Sciences (BIAS) project, the NOMIS Foundation is delighted to release its first NOMIS Insight film featuring inaugural NOMIS Awardee […]
“Synthetic” mouse embryo with brain and beating heart grown from stem cells
NOMIS Awardee Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and colleagues from the University of Cambridge and Caltech have created model mouse embryos from stem cells—the body’s master cells, which can develop into almost any […]
Svante Pääbo receives Japan Prize in field of life science
NOMIS Awardee Svante Pääbo received the 2020 Japan Prize at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 13, 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 prizes were presented […]
NOMIS Award presented to four pioneering scientists
Recognizing their outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and human progress through their pioneering, collaborative research, the 2021 as well as the 2020 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award […]
Manos Tsakiris co-editor of “The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms”
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London) and colleague Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge) have co-edited the […]
NOMIS announces recipients of 2021 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award
The NOMIS Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2021 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award—congratulations to Catherine Dulac of Harvard University and Robert Ewers of Imperial College […]
David Freedberg and colleagues to hold workshop: “On the Biology of Mind. Bridging the Two Cultures: Creativity and Reasoning”
David Freedberg and colleagues will hold a roundtable discussion titled “On the Biology of Mind. Bridging the Two Cultures: Creativity and Reasoning” as part of the “Artfull Brain II” Research […]
Janelle Ayres shares insights in “Surviving COVID-19: A Disease Tolerance Perspective”
NOMIS researcher Janelle Ayres, a molecular and systems physiologist at the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has published an editorial on […]
“Pandemics and the Great Evolutionary Mismatch”—an essay by NOMIS researcher Ophelia Deroy
Covid-19: Threats makes us even more social, and this may be our biggest problem now An interdisciplinary team led by Professor Ophelia Deroy, associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (IP) part […]
Jacob Corn lecture sheds light on genome editing
According to Professor Jacob Corn, we are standing on the threshold of major medical breakthroughs: thanks to advances in the field of genome editing, it may be possible in future […]
Karl Deisseroth awarded 2018 Kyoto Prize
Karl Deisseroth has been awarded the 2018 Kyoto Prize in the category of Advanced Technology for the discovery of optogenetics and development of causal systems neuroscience. He developed an biological […]
Bilgin Ayata
Bilgin Ayata is professor of southeastern European studies at the University of Graz (Austria) and is leading the project Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century. Born in […]
Christopher Currin
Christopher Currin is a NOMIS Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), working closely with the research groups of Tim Vogels (Computational Neuroscience and Neurotheory) and Gaia […]
Jeremy Melius
Jeremy Melius is a NOMIS Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Melius is a historian of modern art […]
Mario Schulze
Mario Schulze is a NOMIS Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Born in Halle/Saale, Germany, Schulze focuses in […]
Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny is professor emerita of science and technology studies at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, founding member and former president of the European Research Council, and scientific advisory board member of […]
Thomas A. Rando
Thomas A. Rando is a 2022 NOMIS Awardee and is the director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of […]
Molly Warnock
Molly Warnock is a NOMIS Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Warnock is a historian and critic of […]
Robert Ewers
Robert (Rob) Ewers is a 2021 NOMIS Awardee and has been professor of ecology at Imperial College London, UK, since 2017. He is leading the project A Virtual Rainforest for […]