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Award 2021
The Swiss Foundation for Tuberculosis Research invites applications for the 20th SwissTB Award for the amount of CHF 10'000. Please submit your work until 31.12.2020 online via the SwissTB website.
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2020 Swiss TB Award
Every year, the Swiss Foundation for Tuberculosis Research awards the Swiss TB Award for outstanding work by Swiss researchers. The two winners this year are Nina T. Odermatt from the EPFL Lausanne and Tobias Broger from the Swiss non-profit organisation FIND. - Read more
2019 Swiss TB Award
Every year since 2002, the Swiss Foundation for Tuberculosis Research awards the CHF 10'000 Swiss TB Award for outstanding work by Swiss researchers. This year's winners are Ms Kathrin Zürcher and Ms Marie Ballif from the ISPM in Berne with their recently published important work in the Lancet Journal on the importance of a corrective testing of tuberculosis pathogens for drug resistance to treatment outcomes. This has a decisive influence on their survival, especially in multi-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis or extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. - Read more
2018 SwissTB Award
The 2018 SwissTB Award goes to two scientists: Dr. Andrej Trauner, Swiss TPH, and Dr. Anna Rominski, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie Universität Zürich - Read more