Facts & Figures
Research Groups
Criteria for the status of a research group leader correspond to the general conditions defined by the Medical Faculty. Most importantly, research groups have to show proof of successful independent research.
Research Groups
Number of research groups according to institution per end of 2025
139
research groups in total.
This represents an increase of 9 per cent compared to last year.
University Hospital Basel (USB)
University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB)
University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK)
University of Basel
Cantonal Hospital Basel-Landschaft
St. Clara Hospital Basel
Felix Platter Hospital Basel
Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB)
University Centre for Dental Medicine Basel
Other
Publications
Number of publications authored by research group leaders
1436
​publications published in peer-reviewed journals were authored by research group leaders in total in 2025.
This is the result of a literature search in Pubmed.gov. It represents an increase of 17 per cent compared to last year.​​ In more than half of the publications, two or more research group leaders were listed as authors.
IICT winners 2025 - Call 2024
Patrick Badertscher, Michael Kühne
Project
Biomarker-guided prolonged cardiac monitoring study using wearable technology in stroke patients
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Further applicants
Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser (EOC), Sophie Pautex (HUG), Tobias Schneider (USB), Marcus Vetter (KSBL)
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Christopher Böhlke
DKF FG Jan Gärtner
Project
Efficacy of nonopioid drugs in addition to opioid therapy for cancer pain management: a double-blind, randomized, three arm, placebo controlled trial assessing the key non-opioids dipyrone (metamizole) and ibuprofen: NoDoubt-trial
PPI Preparatory Grant winners 2025 - Call 2025
Joachim Fladt
DKF FG Mira Katan
Project
Safety and Efficacy of Antiplatelet Therapy versus Intravenous Thrombolysis in Patients with Lacunar Stroke: The LACUNA Trial
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Benjamin Kasenda
Project
Bendamustine versus Cyclophosphamide and Fludarabine as Lymphodepleting Chemotherapy in Autologous Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy – A Randomized Trial
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Romano Schneider
Project
Single anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass versus one anastomosis gastric bypass versus Roux-Y gastric bypass: Multicenter RCT after suboptimal response post-sleeve gastrectomy (STEPS-Trial)
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Viola Heinzelmann-Schwarz
Project
Localized Radiotherapy in oligometastatic platinum-sensitive recurrent Ovarian cancer vs. standard of care: a randomized multicenter trial (LoRiO)
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Marios Nikos Psychogios
Project
MANAGE-DISTAL: Medical Management vs. distal thrombectomy or intra-arterial thrombolysis – A platform adaptive design trial to assess the best treatment modality for medium and distal vessel occlusions in stroke
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Eleonora Seelig
Project
​Metformin to prevent side effects of glucocorticoids – a randomized, controlled phase 3 trial
Project funding
Swiss National Science Foundations
Matthias Betz
Project
Energy homeostasis following weight-loss in humans
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Stephanie Gros
Project
Understanding spontaneous regression in neuroblastoma in early development: immune system influence and therapeutic implications
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Christian Nickel
Project
REMEDY (Reducing Mistriage in Emergency Departments: A Path to Improved Triage Accuracy through Real-time Evaluation and Artificial Intelligence)
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Further applicants
​Philippe Cattin (DBE), Michael Simon, Franziska Zúñiga (Unibas)
Philipp Sterzer, Georg Keller (FMI)
Project
​A cortical circuit approach to schizophrenia
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Eva Unternäher
DKF FG Christina Stadler
Project
SWIss Preschoolers’ screen Exposure (SWIPE) – Longitudinal effects on Socio-emotional, Language, and Motor Development
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BRIDGE – Discovery
Swiss National Science Foundation & Innosuisse
Maria Katapodi
Project
Family Gene Toolkit: A digital service to support genetic care in Europe
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Further applicants
Maria Caiata Zufferey (SUPSI), Florina M. Ciorba (Unibas)
Funding of strategic research projects
University of Basel
Patrick Badertscher
Project
Biomarker-guided prolonged cardiac monitoring study using wearable technology in stroke patients
ERC Consolidator Grant
European Research Council (ERC)
Bence György
Project
Advancing therapeutic base editing for vision loss (BaseVision)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
HORIZON Europe
Matthias Briel
Project
Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Clinical Trials (EDIT)
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Further applicants
Benjamin Speich