| | |  | | NEWSLETTER ::: NO. 15 ::: DEC 2017 | | JUNIOR GRANTS 2017 | | The NCCR Kidney.CH awarded 2017 two new Junior Grants. Each grant in an amount of kCHF 60/year. The two awardees are ... |  | |
Diane de Zélicourt and Johan Lorenzen received this year’s NCCR Kidney.CH Junior Grant. Diane de Zélicourt is a Postdoc at the Institute of Physiology and part of the Interface Group in the lab of Vartan Kurtcuoglu at the University of Zurich. Her primary research focus is on experimental and computational methods in biomechanics, and their application to understand disease mechanisms and improve device designs/ surgical procedures.
Johan Lorenzen is doing his research at the lab of Ruedi Wüthrich at the Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, but also at the University Hospital Zurich. Johan is exploring the role of non-coding RNAs in kidney injury (see “Portrait” in this newsletter). The grant money of CHF 60’000 per year for a maximum of three years is intended to help increase the candidates’ professional independence and to promote their projects. |
| | | | Kidney - Control of Homeostasis | | is a Swiss research initiative, headquartered at University of Zurich, which brings together leading specialists in experimental and clinical nephrology and physiology from the universities of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich, and corresponding university hospitals. |
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