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A better way to plan your travels
20 November 2009
routeRANK, an EPFL start-up website in the Parc Scientifique allowing users to find the best way to their destination according to personalized criteria, has been chosen as a Microsoft Start-up of the Day for November 19th. Using a unique algorithm, the start-up’s founder and chairman Jochen Mundiger created an intelligent way to plan one’s trips that takes into account public transportation, car and air travel, while also giving you the CO2 emissions for those who wish to consider the ecological impact of their travels....continuation
Launch of European Medical Device Accelerator (MDA)
09 November 2009
Based at the Science Park next to Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, MDA aims to accelerate the development of revolutionary medical device technology ideas in Europe and to create entities ready for future financing or licensing.
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Integrate the energies of tomorrow: a scientific and industrial challenge
04 November 2009
EOS Holding, its stock holders and EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) have announced a new partnership. The energy group will invest 10 million Swiss Francs (6.6 million Euros) over the next five years for research and teaching in the fields of energy storage and distribution.
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EPFL ranked first in Europe in its field
04 November 2009
The 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, affirms EPFL’s top place among European Universities in the field of Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences. Gaining three places from the 2008 rankings this year, the technical university in Lausanne, Switzerland ties Cambridge University as the 1st in Europe and 15th in the world in its field....continuation
The Entwined Destinies of Mankind and Leprosy Bacteria
02 November 2009
Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in doing so has made a public health study essential for combating the disease.
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The European Molecular Biology Organization has elected to its prestigious ranks three EPFL scientists.
21 October 2009
The European Molecular Biology Organization has elected around 60 reserchers to its prestigious ranks, three of them EPFL scientists.
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Françoise Gisou van der Goot has received the 2009 Marcel Benoist Prize
12 October 2009
Under the ordination of the Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin, the board of trustees of the Marcel Benoist Foundation awarded the 2009 Marcel Benoist Prize, a sum of 100,000 Swiss francs, to Professor Françoise Gisou van der Goot, member of the Global Health Institute at the EPFL. The laureate has been recognized for her work in infectious diseases, notably in how bacterial toxins make their way through a cell and how the cell reacts to these toxins. Pascal Couchepin welcomed Gisou van der Goot in Bern on the 12th of October, 2009. This is the first time this prize has been awarded to a woman, as well as the first time EPFL has been undividedly awarded the prize.
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