Botnar Research Centre for Child Health starts research activities
The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) announced the start of its research activities with four Multi-Investigator Projects (MIPs). One of the projects is led by D-HEST Professor Emma Wetter Slack.
Emma Wetter Slack's project is "Precision Microbiota Engineering for Child Health". As BRCCH write on their external pagewebsitecall_made, the project aims to develop tools to engineer the microbiota of individuals with inborn errors of metabolism or necrotizing enterocolitis. "Bad" bacteria in the microbiome of the gut will be replaced by "desirable" ones, with the help of engineered antibodies and the direct targeting of individual genes by using CRISPR-Cas9.
Emma Wetter Slack is joined by Professors Viola Vogel, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Johannes Bohacek, and Christian Wolfrum (all Department of Health Sciences and Technology). Other members of the team are Professor Shinichi Sunagawa (ETH Zurich Department of Biology), and Professor Médéric Diard (University of Basel), Professor Matthias Baumgartner, Professor Johannes Häberle and Dr Sean Froese(University Children’s Hospital Zürich), Dr Johannes Trück (University Children’s Hospital Zürich and University of Zürich), Professor Giancarlo Natalucci (University Hospital Zürich), Dr Martin Behe (Paul Scherrer Institute) and Professor Adrian Egli (University Hospital Basel).
Inaugural BRCCH Spotlight Day 30 January 2020
The four Multi-Investigator Projects will be presented at the external pageInaugural BRCCH Spotlight Day on Thursday, 30 January 2020call_made, at the Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung of the University Hospital Basel.