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Prof. Andrea Burden will start on May 1 at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She will there launch the new field of Pharmacoepidemiology with a direct link to the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University Hospital Zurich. The D-CHAB wishes Prof. Burden a warm welcome and a very successful start!

A new conductor material and a new electrode material could pave the way for inexpensive batteries and therefore the large-scale storage of renewable energies.

Prof. Pérez-Ramírez' group successfully created highly ordered copper-indium catalytic electrodes. They used microfabrication techniques, normally employed in the production of integrated circuits, to make model electrodes with catalytic islands in order to study and tune the catalytic activity for the reduction of CO₂.

At last week’s "Meet the Talent" event, donors to the Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme met with recipients to learn more about their research projects and directly see the effect of their support. Also three students of the D-CHAB presented their current research to their supporters.

The digital audio of an entire music album is to be stored in the form of genetic information for the first time, using technology developed at ETH Zurich. Coded in DNA molecules and poured into tiny glass beads, an album by Massive Attack will be preserved – practically for eternity.