Franziska M. Hoffart

PRESENTED BY André Ibisch NOMINATED BY TU Dortmund Tags: Intelligent Observation, Monitoring, Public Transportation, Retail Industry

A bioprinting platform that accelerates the development of novel printing technologies based on an ecosystem of toolheads, bioprinters and software, designed to fulfill the evolving research needs. Tags: Bio-Tech, Covid-19, Digital Health, Education, Engineering, Food & Agriculture, Med-Tech, Open Access, Robotic, Science Diplomacy, Science Policy, Trust in science, Bioprinting, Tissue…

Nominated by: Michael Blind, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Presented by: Dominik Schumacher

One for all, All for One is an art-based vaccine engagement project based in Blantyre, Malawi at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme. The collaborative effort involves local community groups, health experts, frontline workers, policymakers, and engagement practitioners from Africa and the UK. Using participatory processes, the team has produced a captivating…

Environmental sustainability is essential for improving health system functions, delivering better outcomes for patients, and contributing to larger social and economic benefits. Reducing both the carbon footprint and waste generation in the healthcare sector are examples of methods to achieve environmental sustainability – this escalating issue requires attention and action.…

Lorena Neira Ramírez developed a low-cost material to maximize the area coralline algae can grow upon. Facilitating a settlement substrate helps marine ecosystems capture carbon faster and more efficiently.

The nominating institute University of Zurich on the breakthrough: While mutualism was already acknowledged by Darwin, almost all studies have focused on highly specialized, one-on-one interactions. This misses the fact that mutualism shapes networks of interdependencies involving dozens of species. Bascompte’s work fills this gap by showing that the structure…

After successful restoration of visual function in animal models of retinal degeneration (with Botond Roska (IOB, Basel), Dr. Sahel conceived the first-in-man clinical trial combining a biotherapy (photoactivatable optogene channelrhodopsin expressed in retinal ganglion cells) coupled with a stimulation device, and observed the first clinical evidence for vision restoration using…

How Macroeconomics Shape the Financial Architecture of Tomorrow Sometimes, the reason for a paradigm shift can seem completely obvious after it has been discovered. One wonders how the prior held notion could have been resilient to change for so long. A field that does not lack bold assertions followed by…

Prof. Ting Xu received Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004 and postdoc training at the University of Pennsylvania and NIST. She jointed University of California, Berkeley in 2007 in the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering and Department of Chemistry. Her research…