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The ETH Competence Center Rehabilitation Engineering and Science (RESC) is launching a new online lecture series. The first edition will start on 28 November 2022 featuring speaker Roger Gassert, Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich.

The GLC research and laboratory building in Gloriarank is not expected to open until the second half of 2023. Completion by the general contractor has been further delayed. The latest available information indicates that the D-HEST and D-ITET departments will be able to move in with their 13 professorships starting early 2023.  

Meet the Paralympic gold medallist and world champion on 12 September 2022 at ETH Zurich. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Heinz Frei, one of Switzerland’s most successful top athletes in person!

The University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have established the Wyss Zurich Foundation. With this step, the two Zurich universities aim to put the Wyss Zurich Translational Center, a joint accelerator for translational research specializing in regenerative medicine and robotics, on a stable long-term footing.

With its new building on the Gloriarank site (GLC), ETH Zurich is creating a modern development and laboratory building for Health Sciences and Technology at its Zentrum campus. The site will house 13 professorships from the HEST and ITET departments. But with building works delayed, they will have to wait a little longer. ETH expects operations to begin there in 2022.

ETH Zurich has launched a new technology platform for clinical trials. The digital Trial Intervention Platform (dTIP) is designed to guide and support researchers and spin-offs in implementing clinical trials and to drive forward health-related research.  

ETH members are gradually returning to buildings on the campus. From 8 June especially, there will be increased activity in office buildings and laboratories. So the obvious question is, how best to protect ourselves. We asked the advice of Dr Leonhard Sigel, head of the Occupational Medicine and Health Protection section of SSHE at our university.

Nicola Rüegsegger and Pascal Wacker are studying computer science at ETH Zurich as a second career path. With their know-how, they helped set up two platforms that help place students and personnel in the most affected hospitals.

Now more than ever, medicine is the focus of individual and social interest – it is also in the spotlight at ETH Zurich.

An info room in the former anatomy building at University Hospital Zurich provides information on developments in Zurich’s central university district. There is also a poster exhibition in ETH’s main building that discusses what will happen to the urban space between the buildings.

The Collegium Helveticum's Board of Trustees has elected seven professors as fellows.