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New insights into the processes that cause Parkinson's disease

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In a breakthrough for Parkinson’s disease, scientists at EPFL have reconstructed the process by which Lewy bodies form in the brain of patients. The study offers new insights into how Parkinson’s disease begins and evolves, and opens up a set of potential new treatment targets.

Three EPFL spin-offs among Europe's top 50 “super scale-ups”

19.02.20NewsInnovation

Four Swiss companies, including three EPFL spin-offs – Flyability, Kandou and Nexthink – will be featured among Europe’s top 50 high-tech scale-ups at this year’s Tech Tour Growth Summit. The Summit is an annual event where a panel of international investors selects the most promising young European businesses with the potential to become tomorrow’s unicorns.

Using performance modelling for brain tissue simulations

19.02.20NewsEPFL

Scientists at the EPFL Blue Brain Project have extended performance modelling techniques to the field of computational brain science. In a paper published in Neuroinformatics, they provide a quantitative appraisal of the performance landscape of brain tissue simulations, and analyze in detail the relationship between an in silico experiment, the underlying neuron and connectivity model, the simulation algorithm and the hardware platform being used. Thereby deriving the first analytical performance models of detailed brain tissue simulations, which is a concrete step to enable the next generation of brain tissue simulations.

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Bruno Correia © Alain Herzog / 2020 EPFL

“Knowing something and teaching it are two very different things”

29.01.20EPFL

Bruno Correia, the head of EPFL’s Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering, has been named the best teacher in the life sciences and technology section for 2019 – just four years after giving his first-ever class.

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani © Alain Herzog / 2020 EPFL

“I update my lessons every year, otherwise I get bored”

23.01.20EPFL

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, who heads EPFL’s Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, has been named the best teacher in the environmental sciences and engineering section for 2019.

Associate professor Tamar Kohn and full professor Athanasios Nenes. © Alain Herzog / EPFL 2020

A research team aims to reduce influenza transmission

23.01.20Research

In Lausanne and Zurich, experts in virology, medicine, environmental chemistry and atmospheric science will pool their expertise to better understand the airborne transmission of the influenza virus.

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Poetry Contest

On the initiative of two students from the Civil Engineering section, the EPFL community is invited to write and present poems on the theme of time. The rules are simple: write in French, in verse and in rhyme, and submit…

01-02-202015-04-2020

With: Concours ouvert aux étudiants et collaborateurs de l’EPFL
Category: Cultural events