The culmination of the academic year at Harvard University’s iLab is the awarding of the Bertarelli Prize to the winner of the Dean’s Health and Life Sciences Challenge. This year it was the turn of LuminOva to walk away with the prestigious award and a cheque for $40,000. LuminOva was formed to address the problem of […]
Making the impossible possible The 2015 Bertarelli Symposium on Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering was held today, Friday April 17th, at Campus Biotech, Geneva. The Symposium brings together scientists from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to discuss the work that they undertake collaboratively as part of the transatlantic research […]
Harvard and EPFL join forces in research projects to tackle blindness and deafness through neuroengineering
The Bertarelli Foundation is delighted to be working with YMCA North Staffordshire (YMCANS) on a project called Creative Youth Minds. Over the course of a year creative workshops at the YMCA’s campus – all led by local artists – will help young people to develop new skills, showcase hidden talents and create opportunities for their […]
The Bertarelli Foundation has funded a new faculty Chair of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Massachusetts with a $3 million gift.
Transformation of Parc de la Garenne begins as the Foundation Stone is laid by Dona Bertarelli at a ceremony in Le Vaud.
At the concluding event of the 2014 Dean’s Health & Life Science Challenge, Aldatu Biosciences was selected as the winner of the inaugural Bertarelli Prize – an impressive achievement for a young company with huge potential. Aldatu Biosciences was founded at the iLab by David Raiser and Iain MacLeod to further their efforts to apply […]
Ernesto Bertarelli, co-Chair of the Bertarelli Foundation, has announced the creation of the Bertarelli Foundation Health and Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to Harvard Business School. The fund will support activities at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which leverages entrepreneurial spirit throughout the University and shows the unlimited possibilities unleashed when individuals […]
March 2014 sees researchers from Stanford University, the University of Western Australia (UWA), University College London (UCL) and the Zoological Society London (ZSL), generously supported by the Bertarelli Foundation, preparing to revisit the Chagos Marine Protected Area in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
The Bertarelli Foundation has signed gift agreements with Harvard Medical School and the EPFL
At Harvard Medical School, 17-18 January, researchers and clinicians from the university joined colleagues from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for the third annual Bertarelli Symposium. This year’s meeting coincided with the formal renewal of the partnership between the Bertarelli Foundation and the two academic institutions in the form of the Bertarelli Program in Translational […]
An analysis commissioned by the Bertarelli Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts found that Easter Island’s marine environment to be one of the most unique in the world. Due in part to its remote location and vast size, Easter Island’s waters are potentially vulnerable to illegal fishing—a criminal activity dependent on the perception that “no […]