SNF Grant Hero
20.02.2025
•Fundamentals of Nature
•8 min

Prestigious funding for research at PSI

Concrete, chemical catalysis and the search for new physics – three PSI researchers have each received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for these areas of research.

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A new dimension of complexity for layered magnetic materials
17.02.2025
•Future Technologies
•8 min

A new dimension of complexity for layered magnetic materials

X-rays reveal magnetic phenomena driven by interactions between the layers of a kagome ferromagnet 

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Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding how botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, enters our nerve cells.
Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding how botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, enters our nerve cells. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic
11.02.2025
•Health Innovation
•6 min

How botox enters our cells

Researchers at PSI have identified structural changes of the bacterial neurotoxin botox that are important for its uptake into nerve cells. This finding could allow a more targeted use of botox in medicine.

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Roger Schibli
If the hypothesis with a drug proves to be true, then patients with prostate cancer could be treated more effectively in the future, believes Roger Schibli, Head of the PSI Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (CRS). © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
07.02.2025
•Health Innovation
•7 min

New approaches to cancer treatment

The ETH/PHRT-funded clinical studies “RAPID 01” and “PROGNOSTICS” have successfully started recruiting patients. 

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Roger Schibli
If the hypothesis with a drug proves to be true, then patients with prostate cancer could be treated more effectively in the future, believes Roger Schibli, Head of the PSI Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (CRS). © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
Quantum
06.02.2025
•Future Technologies
•7 min

Unique quantum simulator opens door to new research

PSI physicists have teamed up with Google to build a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator. 

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Wind turbines are not equally well accepted everywhere.
Wind turbines are not equally well accepted everywhere. © Pixabay, edited with AI
15.01.2025
•Future Technologies
•11 min

“The biggest challenge is lacking public acceptance of wind turbines”

In an interview with ETH News, Russell McKenna, an expert in energy system analysis, explains where he sees the greatest need for action in order to further develop wind energy.

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Wind turbines are not equally well accepted everywhere.
Wind turbines are not equally well accepted everywhere. © Pixabay, edited with AI

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Christian Rüegg
•Large research facilities
•7 min

IMPACT: Upgrade at PSI research facility approved

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Financing for renovations to PSI’s proton accelerator facility has been approved by the Swiss Parliament. 

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Melvin Deubelbeiss
•7 min

Soldering on a big stage

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Whoever makes it onto the podium here is one of the world's best professional talents: PSI electronics engineer Melvin Deubelbeiss won the silver medal at WorldSkills 2024.

Athanasios Mokos
•9 min

Master of the flow

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Even as a student, Athanasios Mokos was excited by the dynamics of fluids. Today at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, he models complex processes such as the formation of deposits on reactor fuel rods.

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Employees at PSI are working on the world of tomorrow.

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PSI operates five particle accelerator-based large research facilities.

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In a total of 64 centres, labs and groups, we conduct research into pressing societal issues.

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Every year, around 3000 researchers from all over the world carry out experiments at our facilities.
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