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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), affiliated with @UniBasel & @NovartisScience, conducts research at the forefront of biomedicine.
Basel, Switzerland
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    Mar 31
    We are discontinuing the activities of our account on X. No new updates will be shared starting tomorrow. You can continue following our work and stay connected through our other social media channels: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok 🚀
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    Sep 12, 2022
    Congratulations to @LucaGiorgetti for his promotion to FMI Senior Group Leader with tenure. With his team, Luca made fundamental discoveries on how enhancers regulate genes over large genomic distances; we are thrilled he will continue his highly innovative research at the FMI.
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    Jan 25, 2021
    Congratulations to FMI group leader and @UniBasel_en professor @priscaliberali for winning the prestigious Friedrich Miescher Award 2021 under the patronage of @LS2Switzerland👏👏👏 Read more 👉 bit.ly/39cfmfI
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    Apr 15, 2020
    We are pleased to announce that Dirk Schübeler has been appointed as our next Director! Dirk has been a group leader at the FMI since 2003 and has led the institute as co-Director ad interim with Silvia Arber since March 2019. Congrats! Read more here👉bit.ly/3ek6GV4
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    Apr 26, 2022
    Congratulations to FMI group leader Nicolas Thomä (@LabThoma), who receives this year's Otto Naegeli Prize — one of Switzerland's most coveted scientific awards. Thomä is recognized for his groundbreaking work on targeted protein degradation.
    Nicolas Thomä receives the Otto Naegeli Prize 2022
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    Jan 17, 2023
    📢Please RT: We're hiring two tenure-track group leaders, one in Multicellular Systems and one in Genome Regulation/Structural Biology. Apply by March 19 at: bit.ly/MulticellularS… or bit.ly/StructuralBiol… #AcademicTwitter
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    Sep 7, 2021
    Welcome to the FMI, Margherita Yayoi Turco! Margherita joined the institute last week and she will lead a team that investigates how the placenta develops and works together with the mother’s uterus during pregnancy👉bit.ly/TurcoLab #organoids #placenta #development
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    Feb 6, 2023
    Now in @MolecularCell: using a tool to control and visualize RNA translation and decay one molecule at the time, @dave_pratik_ & colleagues @ChaoLabFMI discovered that translation promotes #RNA degradation — a finding that may help develop RNA-based drugs
    Translating an RNA boosts its degradation
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    Sep 25, 2020
    📢 JOIN US - JUNIOR GROUP LEADER POSITION! 📢   Applications are open now for a new group leader in multicellular systems!   Apply here 👉bit.ly/3cxd0b7 For more info contact👉@priscaliberali
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    Feb 8, 2023
    Congratulations to FMI group leader @LucaGiorgetti, who was awarded a @snsf_ch Consolidator Grant. Giorgetti will use the grant to study the fundamental principles that govern enhancer biology.
    Luca Giorgetti receives SNSF Consolidator Grant
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    Sep 2, 2022
    Congratulations to @FrankaVoigt from @ChaoLabFMI for winning an @snsf_ch PRIMA grant. Franka will use it to start her own lab whilst becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich in 2023. Read more about PRIMA 👉bit.ly/3AMsKUx #primagrant
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    Mar 8, 2021
    Congrats to @priscaliberali, who is now a SENIOR group leader at the FMI. Over the past years, Prisca and her team have studied the principles of tissue organization, making key contributions to our understanding of collective cell behavior. We look forward to many more to come!
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    Jul 4, 2023
    Congratulations to @LucaGiorgetti! The FMI senior group leader is among 69 newly elected @EMBO Members this year. Eight other group leaders currently at the FMI are EMBO members.
    Luca Giorgetti elected as EMBO Member
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    Jul 4, 2022
    Last week, we had a symposium to honor our former Director @susan_gasser. Gasser is a world-leader in the field of genome biology and is noted for her longtime mentorship and support of women in science. Here are a few pictures from the event (thread🧵):