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Neuroscience Center Zurich

Facts and Figures

The ZNZ in numbers

 160

Research groups with more than 1100 neuroscientists

   29

ERC Grants since 2007

 320

Doctoral students enrolled in the ZNZ PhD Program, including 42 % from Switzerland, 40 % from Europe and 18 % from overseas

 728

PhD certificates awarded by December 2021

     9

Elected members in the ZNZ Steering Committee

     1

Coordination office

3500

Visitors annually to the BrainFair

   60

Patents in the National Centre of Competence in Research "Neural Plasticity and Repair" from 2001 – 2013

Milestones

2023 Renewal of Partnership with University College London
2022 Start of Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
2021 New Partnerships with Montreal Neurological Institute and University of Queensland
2019 Viral Vector Facility becomes UZH Central Technology Platform
2017 Establishment of the Therapy Development Accelerator, a unit promoting translational research 
2016 Setup of a junior group in experimental Parkinson research

2015

Launch of the Viral Vector Facility

2014

Start of EIT Health with ETH participation

2013

Setup of the Oxford-McGill-Zurich Partnership in Neuroscience

2012

Research Agreement with University College London

2011

Promotion of clinical multiple sclerosis research with a donation

2010

Collaboration Agreement with McGill University 

2010

Launch of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program together with Neuroscience Centers in Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Göttingen and Coimbra

2009

Establishment of the Velux Foundation Assistant Professorship for Systems and Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration

2008

BrainFair exhibition "Emotions" at Bellevue in Zurich with over 20,000 visitors

2008

Establishment of the Assistant Professorship in Clinical Neurorehabilitation 

2005

CORTEX doctoral training project of the EU "Marie Curie Actions Early Stage Training"

2005

Visit of the Dalai Lama to the ZNZ on 3 August

2003

Creation of two new assistant professorships in multiple sclerosis in collaboration with Serono, Geneva

2001

Start of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research "Neural Plasticity and Repair"

1999

Cooperation agreement with Novartis Basel

1998

Inauguration of ZNZ as a joint center of competence of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich