SKINTEGRITY.CH Partners

 

  • SKINTEGRITY.CH is a collaborative research initiative, which brings together experts from different disciplines from Swiss and selected external institutions to address the following overarching aims:

  • •  To gain a mechanistic understanding of skin repair and disease using a highly interdisciplinary approach
    •  To develop novel approaches for improved diagnosis and treatment of impaired wound healing and inflammatory and malignant skin diseases
    •  To provide an interdisciplinary training for the next generation of scientists, clinicians and engineers

  • SKINTEGRITY.CH is based on the Zurich Initiative “SKINTEGRITY”, which was selected as flagship project of University Medicine Zurich in 2016 (visit their homepage here HMZ). Due to its remarkable success and positive evaluation of new projects, the program was recently prolonged and extended.
Award ceremony with Tanja Ruppen, Thomas Kündig and Michael Cangkrama

Skin Cancer Award 2021

SKINTEGRITY.CH Young Investigator Dr. Michael Cangkrama wins the 2021 Pierre Fabre-Avène Swiss Skin Cancer Award. We congratulate him and wish him all the best for his ongoing research!

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    Skin matters!

    Listen to the latest episode of the ETH Podcast, where Professors Sabine Werner, Edoardo Mazza and Lukas Sommer give their enthusiastic insights into SKINTEGRITY.CH (the podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

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      Lighting up LOX

      The work of Matthew Aronoff et al. demonstrates how their invention of a reactive collagen peptide can light up lysyl oxidase (LOX) activity in remodeling collagen in vivo and in situ, as shown in stains of healthy skin and cancer sections. Read it here!

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        ETH News article

        The ETH News highlights the collaborative work of SKINTEGRITY.CH PIs Prof. Wennemers and Prof. Werner and their teams.

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        Social Media

        For the latest news on the developments in our consortium, you can now follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@skintegrityCH).

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          Optoacoustic imaging

          A wonderful SKINTEGRITY.CH collaboration led to a publication about optoacoustic imaging of angiogenesis in healing wounds in Advanced Science. Read the full paper here.

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            Young Investigator Award 2020

            We congratulate the awardees, Dr. Marco Pensalfini and Dr. Mateusz Wietecha, for the best publication in 2020!

              Spark Award 2020

              Spark Award 2020

              SKINTEGRITY.CH member Prof. Helma Wennemers and Dr. Matthew Aronoff are the winners of the Spark Award 2020. The Spark Award is given for the most promising invention at ETH Zurich resulting in a patent application.

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                EULAR Center of Excellence

                Based on the high output of high-quality publications in the last 5 years, the Department of Rheumatology USZ is granted a EULAR Center of Excellence in rheumatology for the years 2020-2025. We congratulate the department with this success!

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                Scientifica 2021

                SKINTEGRITY.CH will be present at the Scientifica - Zurich Science Days on Sept. 4th and 5th 2021. Visit our part of the exhibition in the ETH main building (Nordhof), or come to our public lecture on Sunday Sept. 5th at noon (ETH HG F5). Detailed information can be found here (for the exhibition) and here (for the public lecture).

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                  Skin bioengineering

                  SKINTEGRITY.CH PIs Prof. Reichmann and Prof. Mazza collaborated for a paper in the June edition of Biomaterials by Adam Wahlsten et al. that investigates the influence of mechanical stimulation on proliferation and maturation of fibroblasts in human skin substitutes. Read it here!

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                    Biennial report USZ Dermatology

                    The biennial report of the Dept. of Dermatology of the University Hospital Zurich was published. Reporting of the collaboration with SKINTEGRITY.CH appears on pp. 48-50. The report can be found here.

                      Tissue repair article

                      New SKINTEGRITY.CH article on ETH News