European grant
AMI researcher awarded prestigious fellowship
19.02.2020
Adolphe Merkle Institute post-doctoral researcher Philip Scholten has been awarded a prestigious European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to develop degradable commodity plastics.
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Recognition
AMI alum awarded best thesis prize
18.02.2020
Adolphe Merkle Institute alum Omar Rifaie Graham (Macromolecular Chemistry) has been awarded the University of Fribourg's prize for best experimental thesis.
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Analyzing
Swiss NanoAnalytics platform to detect nano in consumer goods
23.01.2020
The Swiss NanoAnalytics service platform, which aims to helps both industry and the authorities in the detection and declaration of nanomaterials contained in consumer goods, has been officially launched…
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Equal opportunities
Award goes to AMI team to promote professional role confidence
06.01.2020
Adolphe Merkle Institute Professors Alke Fink and Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, along with Dr. Sofia Martin Caba, are one of two recipients of the inaugural 2019 Materials Today Agents of Change Award.
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Funding
Changes at the Adolphe Merkle Foundation
09.12.2019
The Adolphe Merkle Foundation, which actively supports the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI), has announced changes to the composition of its Board.
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Spark
AMI researchers among winners of new grant program
28.11.2019
Four researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute have been awarded grants as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation's new Spark rapid testing and development program.
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Award-winning
Best thesis prize goes to AMI graduate
15.11.2019
Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) graduate Dr. Céline Calvino has been awarded the 2019 Chorafas Prize for the best doctoral thesis in natural sciences at the University of Fribourg, which focused on the…
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Fresh funding
Innovative projects get financial boost
05.11.2019
Two projects at the Adolphe Merkle Institute have been awarded funding by Innosuisse, the Swiss federal innovation agency, one to stimulate plant resistance, and the other to diagnose malaria.
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Evacuating
Clean-up cells struggle to eliminate persistent particles
21.08.2019
Cells cannot clear certain nanoparticles (NPs) according to recent research published by Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) researchers in the journal ACS Nano. These NPs are considered persistent, and their…
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