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Get to know our four new excellence scholarship holders
The Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program (ESOP) of ETH Zurich promotes outstanding students every year. They receive support from the donors of ETH Foundation for their Master's studies so that they can concentrate fully on education and research. In the D-CHAB this year, four students were able to convince the jury: Luca Hegner, Julia Knuchel, Lukas Rost und Victor Ribeiro Sanctis. In this article, they briefly introduce themselves.
Nanoscale biosensors for personalized medicine
Where antibodies reach their limits in medicine, aptamers step in. These molecules bind with high precision to serotonin, cortisol, and other key signaling compounds, rendering them measurable. Their potential opens new avenues toward personalized therapies for neurological disorders. For her pioneering work in developing aptamer-modified biosensors, Nako Nakatsuka, assistant professor at EPFL, has been honored with the 2025 Ruzicka Prize. A portrait.
How urea forms spontaneously
Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers led by Ruth Signorell have discovered a previously unknown way in which this building block can form spontaneously on aqueous surfaces without the need for any additional energy.