Setting standards
European project tackles micro and nanoplastic sampling, detection, and toxicity through machine-learning
27.02.2025
An ambitious new Europe-wide initiative, including the Adolphe Merkle Institute, aims to develop and harmonize protocols for micro and nanoplastic (MNP) sampling, detection, toxicity, and risk assessment.
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Award
AMI PhD research recognized
11.02.2025
Adolphe Merkle Institute alum Dr. Jessica Caldwell has been awarded the prize for best 2024 experimental thesis by the University of Fribourg’s Faculty of Science and Medicine.
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New role
AMI professor joins national council
19.12.2024
The Adolphe Merkle Institute’s Co-Chair of BioNanomaterials, Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, is one of 15 new members elected to the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Council.
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Fresh ideas
Spark grants for AMI researchers
06.11.2023
Four Adolphe Merkle Institute researchers have been awarded Spark grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The grantees will investigate the detection of Huntington's disease, structural color…
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Aerosol research
International honor for AMI professor
31.08.2023
The Adolphe Merkle Institute's Co-Chair of BioNanomaterials, Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM).
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Women's health
A better model to understand ovarian cancer
16.03.2023
Researchers from the Adolphe Merkle Institute's BioNanomaterials group and other institutions have developed a multicellular 3D human omentum model to study the formation of ovarian and peritoneal cancer.…
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Cleaning up
Researchers call for better nanowaste management
07.03.2023
Waste containing nanomaterials - or nanowaste - is an emerging safety concern worldwide, requiring environmentally sound management and regulation that still need to be established. Researchers at the…
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Collaboration
Art and science join forces at AMI
28.09.2022
The NanoARTS program, a collaboration between the Adolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg and the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, has been launched, with three tandems of artists and scientists…
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Looking back
Our latest annual report
21.07.2022
The latest edition of the Adolphe Merkle Institute annual report is now available in print and online, demonstrating how the Institute's researchers continue to produce groundbreaking research in a sometimes…
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