2021

This year six dotoral theses were awarded the ETH medal at the Departement of Health Sciences and Technology:

Prof. Stephen Ferguson, currently Head of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, has been awarded the Golden Owl 2021. Stephen Ferguson is Professor of Biomechanics at the Institute for Biomechanics and leads the Laboratory for Orthopaedic Technology.

Prof. Stanisa Raspopovic, Professor for Neuroengineering at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, has been awarded the Latsis Prize 2021. 

Great honor for Dr. Nicole Stoffel from the Laboratory of Human Nutrition at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology: on ETH Day on November 20, 2021, she was awarded the Lopez-​Loreta Prize for her project "Effects of iron on immunity and the response to vaccines – in connection with the COVID-​​19 pandemic and future global viral threats".

The new "Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award for ETH Professors" recognizes professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and was given for the first time this year by ETH Entrepreneur Club and ETH AI Center.

The Department of Health Sciences and Technology awarded the first James Mitchell Ward for Excellence in Collaborative Science to Dr. Gabriele Fontana, Laboratory of Toxicology, at a ceremony on June 8, 2021.

At the Master celebration of the study programmes Agricultural Sciences and Food Science, held online on 3 June 2021, the following prizes were awarded to graduates in Food Science:

The Department of Health Sciences and Technology honours the two best results of the first-​year examinations in the study programme Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and in the best result in the study programme Food Science. Prize winners of the first-​year examinations 2020/2021 are: