{"id":13179,"date":"2019-08-21T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/the-university-of-bern-receives-prestigious-grants-for-its-research-programs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:39:54","slug":"the-university-of-bern-receives-prestigious-grants-for-its-research-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/the-university-of-bern-receives-prestigious-grants-for-its-research-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Bern receives prestigious grants for its research programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Underlining the unique quality of medical research at the University of Bern, two researchers receive a prestigious grant under two &#8220;Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs&#8221;, which primarily support research in the USA.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The biomedical scientists Marianna Kruithof-de Julio and Robert Rieben were the only researchers in Switzerland to receive a grant from the American &#8220;Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/cdmrp.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDMRP<\/a>), which provides grants on behalf of the US Department of Defense (DoD) to support medical research projects in numerous areas of biomedicine. Researchers apply for these grants in a highly competitive process.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>An Extraordinary success for Bern<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Only four CDMRP grants have been awarded to Switzerland in the past ten years \u2013 one of which went to another Bernese biomedical scientist, Adriano Taddeo, in 2017. From the current call, the two researchers from Bern were the only scientists from Switzerland to receive a grant: Robert Rieben from the Department for BioMedical Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbmr.unibe.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DBMR<\/a>) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unibe.ch\/index_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Bern<\/a> and Marianna Kruithof-de Julio from the DBMR and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insel.ch\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inselspital<\/a>, Bern University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an extraordinary success for the University of Bern, as these are the only two researchers in Switzerland to receive an award in the fields of prostate cancer and reconstructive surgery,&#8221;\u00a0says Daniel Candinas, Vice-Rector for Research. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio\u2019s project is one of nine that won against 149 applicants. Robert Rieben\u2019s project is the only non-American project of the nine selected from a total of 119 applications. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio\u2019s project will be supported with around $822.000 (equivalent to around 810.000 CHF) for a period of three years, and Robert Rieben\u2019s will be supported by around $750.000 (equivalent to around 740.000 CHF) for three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underlining the unique quality of medical research at the University of Bern, two researchers receive a prestigious grant under two &#8220;Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs&#8221;, which primarily support research in the USA. 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