14 Jul 2020

Tiny fish under a giant camera

Metal-based nanoparticles are a promising tool in medicine – as a contrast agent, transporter of active substances, or to thermally kill tumor cells. Up to now, it has been hardly possible to study their distribution inside an organism.…

13 May 2020

New professors at the University of Basel

The University Council at the University of Basel has selected six new professors including Professor Scott McNeil for nanopharmaceutical and regulatory sciences.

23 Apr 2020

Possible coronavirus drug: university pharmacists produce generic medication

In response to a lack of potential coronavirus medications on the market, pharmacists from the University of Basel have begun to produce tablets themselves. Chronic patients, among others, could benefit from this.

19 Mar 2020

Call to pharmacy students to support pharmacies

Support of Swiss pharmacy students needed in the context of the current Corona situation.

09 Mar 2020

Virtual screening for active substances against the coronavirus

The University of Basel is part of the global search for a drug to fight the rampant coronavirus. Researchers in the Computational Pharmacy group have so far virtually tested almost 700 million substances, targeting a specific site on the…

19 Feb 2020

Well-attended Annual Research Meeting (ARM)

On 30.01.2020, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences welcomed over 180 participants to the annual ARM. After the exciting keynote by Prof. med. T. Szucs on the topic "Funding Costly Innovations - Challenges and Opportunities", the focus…