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Our colleague Dr. Ludovic Gremaud and his team discover pentacyclic product derivative from the natural product perophoramidine, as a formidable anticancer agent

The head of our institute Christophe Allemann took part of a roundtable about sustainability in life sciences

TRANSFORM participates in this year European Radon Week

Prof. Sandra Rihs participated at the annual conference of the European Association of Architectural Education

Séréna Vanbutsele, head of the Institut TRANSFORM and Estela Schaffner (Brahimllari), scientific collaborator, present their work from the project VI-Vid during the conference in Winterthur.

Curriculum Change in India

Outstanding Contribution Awarded to the Smart Living Lab Team for their Research Paper

ChemTech has played a decisive role in the safe development of a key step in the synthesis of a new antimalarial drug

Epson Europe B.V. the European headquarters of Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, "Epson"), has established a new sales office in Switzerland in collaboration with iPrint Institute and Competence Center (iPrint) as part of the company's efforts to strengthen its printhead sales business in Europe. The branch began operations on April 1.

ChemTech Institute – Plasticycle wins the Swiss-Middle East Circular Economy for Youth Initiative at EXPO2020

Two professors of Chemtech, O. Mamula Steiner and C. Allemann, have made a interesting discover about the Pinene–Bipyridine Ligands

Radon in indoor environments: the influence of weather conditions

Prof. Roger Marti presented the latest results on the use of flow chemistry at the Flow Chemistry Symposium held last October

The ChemTech Institute presented its latest results on ionic liquids as phase change materials at the FTAL Meeting in October 2021

The institute was present at the last ILMAC, chemistry fair

A project with Mabi Robotics AG and Polytype AG

ChemTech and the HEIA-FR hosted the annual STK conference on the subject of "thermal analysis and safety".

Prof. C. Allemann publish a new paper about a straightforward one-pot method for the synthesis of isoindolones

by iPrint and HES-SO Valais

Prof. C. Allemann publish a new paper about the solvent contaminants in Suzuki's cross-coupling reactions

Laura Hendriks, researcher at our institute, discover a novel application in the study of polychrome sculpture

European Radon Week 2021 will be held at the blueFACTORY site in Fribourg from the 13th to the 15th of October, 2021. The event will bring together 60 leading radon experts from 22 different countries, including industry professionals, researchers and government officials in the area of radiation protection.

Prof. Ludovic Gremaud and the team of the department of Chemistry from the the Shiv Nadar University in India discovered a sustainable C–H functionalization of indoles, pyrroles and furan and recenlty published their breakthrough

High performance integration of electronic components in an overmoulding

Successful collaboration between iRAP and the Adolphe Merkle Institute for the development of an industrializable purification cassette to detect malaria more easily.

ChemTech has optimised an existing process developed at the milligram scale to several tens of grams.

Opting for ceramic injection molding brings you an opportunity to obtain complex designs.

For several years, the company Metalor has been collaborating with our institute and benefits from the know-how of our students

new course dates

iPrint is now a member of the "Food&Nutrition Cluster"!

Atena Solea has just achieved the defense of her PhD thesis in chemistry

The iPrint and iRAP Institutes are working with Swissmeca to improve the current tests in order to develop a new way of performing Gram stains.

Discover Thomas Jusselme's paper

This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches specifically aimed at improving or maintaining older adults’ health in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional.

iCoSys is proud to present #SwissCrawl, the largest Swiss German text corpus to date!

TRANSFORM By Shen Yang; Vincent, Perret; Hélène Niculita-Hirzel; Corinne Hager Jörin; Joëlle Goyette Pernot; Dusan Licina In: Indoor Air 2020, 00, 1-11

A study covering all of French-speaking Switzerland found that energy-efficient renovation work on residential buildings tends to overlook the question of indoor air quality. The study’s authors, mainly from EPFL and the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR), have called for greater attention to this issue.

Key outcomes of the Driftwood at spillways project presented to the public

Swisscom drives forward innovative 5G projects, which offer customers a wide range of applications with this generation of mobile communication. Together with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Swisscom is undertaking research with 5G projects in relation to the virtualisation of network functions (NFV). For public security, Swisscom is testing various applications, and mobile private networks demonstrate the possibilities for business customers.

Prof. Roger Marti as member of the Institute ChemTech was participating at the Kick-off meeting of the COST Action of the European network on “Furan based chemicals and materials for a Sustainable development” in November in Brussel.

Didier Vuarnoz (Institut ENERGY) has presented a paper at the 3rd International Symposium on Green Energy and Smart Grids - SGESG 2019 in Chongqing, China. This paper written in collaboration with Prof. Elena-Lavinia Niederhäuser, Dimitri Torregrossa and Prof. Dominique Gabioud (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) discusses the integration of power flexibility (PF) in new and existing cooling systems to avoid a possible cold crunch in the near future.

As of mid September 2019, we are proud to host at iCoSys several new student projects that will be realised in our labs