Galenik News & Events

A prize for the development of syringeless formulations for sensitive APIs

Congratulations to prof. Leroux for getting a Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution in excipient-related technology!

Congrat to Steffen who presented a poster on his research about nonviral transfection agents

Happy to share that our article was included in the special collection among the most outstanding articles published throughout 2024

Prof. Leroux on advisory board of this Symposium taking place on Feb 2025, Utah

Bioinspired by leeches, Dr. Nicole Zoratto has developed a microneedle-based device for painless blood sampling

Diana Evstafeva's work was featured in Translational and Clinical Research among 50 best papers. Congratulations!  

Congratulations to the team for another win!

Congratulations to Elita, who presented on our lab's novel delivery platform for ribonucleic acids.

Skintegrity.CH awarded the prize to Vadim for his work on ultrafast purification of extracellular vesicles

OctoPatch^TM has closed 2023 with another win of Venture Kick program. 2024 is initiating with regulatory strategy discussions and further fundraising.  

Congratulations to Steffen, who presented part of his work on improving protein-based tranfection systems via bZIP proteins.

Congratulations to Diana! Her work is focused on diseased liver and more specifically Hepatic Encephalopathy. She showed that is possible to reduce ammonia levels by using hydroxamate-based urease inhibitors in the colon.

Explore in-depth about non-invasive delivery of medications typically administered through injections.  

Best poster awards for Silvana, Marina, Fatma and Nadia!  

Doktorandentag is celebrated every semester where doctoral students present their research in front of the jury and their colleagues, and only one takes the prize home.

With Transire Bio, Nevena and David Klein Cerrejon aim to enable the painless delivery of injectable drugs.

Remarkable theses earn the silver ETH Medal, a distinction granted to just 8% of all departmental doctoral theses - a mark of their exceptional quality.  

This award was presented by Bioconjugate Chemistry and the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering. It recognizes important contributions at the interface between synthetic and biological worlds.

Our recent PhD recipient Dr. Nevena Paunovic has been granted an award for her doctoral thesis “Development of biomedical Inks for Light-Based 3D Printing of Biodegradable Non-Vascular stents”  

On February 23d Nevena had the chance to pitch about painless peptide delivery among other 50 top startups!

We are proud to announce this award for our doctoral student Nevena Paunovic! Pioneer Fellowships are awarded for a period of 18 months and they support ETH graduates who are developing highly innovative products.  

Congratulations to our doctoral student David! Merck Sharp and Dohme Graduate Research Advances in Delivery Sciences awarded him for his work on buccal delivery of biopharmaceuticals in Canada, while Pharmaceutical Society Zurich sponsored the prize in Switzerland. In addition, the project won a runner-up prize at MaP Graduate Symposium 2022. 

Selected students get awarded by Swiss Academy of Sciences and Swiss Chemical Society to participate at international conferences   

Congratulations to professor Leroux for being selected as the winner of the 2022 Maurice-Marie Janot Award!

The Controlled Release Society's announced Samyang Award in honor of Sung Wan Kim, recognizing Prof. Jean-Christophe Leroux for his outstanding contributions during past 10 years.

We are proud to announce 2 nominations for Spark Award 2022! Diana Evstafeva lead the discovery of treatment for hepatic encephalopathy and urea cycle disorders, while David Klein fabricated a mucosal suction patch for buccal drug delivery.   

Congratulations to prof. Leroux for winning this award for the 6th time! Jean-Christophe Leroux ranks in the top 1% by citations in Pharmacology and Toxicology according to Web of Science.

Congratulations to our doctoral student Silvana! She successfully developed a model vaccine that induced T-cells response in vitro and in vivo models. Activating patient's own immune system can be exploited in therapeutic cancer vaccination and other diseases.

We are very proud to announce another award for prof. Leroux! This time is about fostering entrepreneurship at the entire department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D-CHAB). The first award to recognize ETH professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship among students and researchers.    

Human microbiome is famously known for its benefits to our health, however few bacteria survive the manufacturing process. Fatma is working on a novel approach to improve bacterial survival by encapsulating aqueous suspensions of live bacteria inside a functional composite capsule.

Our postdoctoral fellow, Dr Nicole Zoratto, will work on the development of the versatile microsampling device to collect the blood with minimal invasiveness for point-of-care tests. This project is part of  Postdoctoral Excellence Programme (PEP), an  initiative of Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH).  

The Grand Prix de l`Académie nationale de Pharmacie is awarded to pharmacists under 60 who set an example through the quality of their work and achievements in their professional lives.

Professor Leroux received an Innovation Award in R&D presented by the Faculty of Pharmacy, at University of Montreal. He was one of the six laureates who distinguished for the quality of the innovations achieved during their professional practice.  

Prof. Dr. Jean-​Christophe Leroux gives an interview to AZoM about the newly developed 3D printed airway stents.

Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Leroux was elected as a member of the  European Academy of Sciences.

The article by Schantl et al. entitled “Inhibition of vascular calcification by inositol phosphates derivatized with ethylene glycol oligomers” was featured in the Editors’ Highlights webpage of Nature Communications.

Congratulations to Prof. Leroux for receiving the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.

Congratulations to Michael Burger on receiving the Best Poster Prize at the CRS Local Chapter Meeting 2020 in Munich.

The calcification of blood vessels and other soft tissues is problematic. Researchers at ETH Zurich and ETH spin-​off Inositec have discovered a substance that prevents vascular calcification.

Prof. Leroux talks about innovation, the startups that came out of his lab, and much more in an interview with Investiere.ch.  

"Versantis has closed a CHF16 million Series B financing round to advance the clinical development of their novel therapeutics for liver diseases." (Quoted from today's press release in startupticker.ch. Click to read more.)

Congratulations to Silvana Geisshüsler on receiving the 1st Poster Prize in Pharmaceutical Technology at the 12th Swiss Pharma Science Day 2019.

Congratulations to Michael Burger on receiving the Best Poster Award at the CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition 2019.

Congratulations to Nevena Paunović on receiving the Best Poster Award at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2019.

Also in 2018, Prof. Leroux was included by Clarivate Analytics in the list of world-class researchers with multiple papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

We congratulate Simon Matoori on winning the Best Poster Award at the Swiss Pharma Science Day 2018.

We congratulate Yinyin Bao, whose poster was awarded Runner-up (Polycoll) in the Best Poster Competition at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2018.

Kategorie «Start-ups» Inositec AG, Zürich Die Inositec AG  ist ein Biotech-Spin-off der ETH Zürich, welches innovative Medi­kamente basierend auf Inositolphosphat, einem natürlichen Vermittler mit viel­fältigen Zellfunktionen, entwickelt. Die kleinen Moleküle helfen zum Beispiel bei Arterienverkalkungen oder Darminfektionen.

Prof. Leroux's research ranks this year again among the top 1% of most cited researcher in his field by Clarivate Analytics, earning the mark of exceptional impact.  

We congratulate Irene Pereira de Sousa for winning the Poster Award at the CRS Italy Chapter Workshop 2017 in Salerno, Italy. Title of the poster: Oral treatment of phenylketonuria: a microparticulate-based formulation.

Since September 2016, she has been looking for new ways to treat the congenital metabolic disorder phenylketonuria as postdoc in ETH Professor Jean-Christophe Leroux’s research group.

Funding brings resources to advance lead candidate VS-01 to first-in-human study and transform the care of patients with rare and life-threatening liver diseases.

Prof. Leroux received the 2016 "Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Outstanding Research Award" from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) for his contributions to the application of lipid excipients in development of novel and effective drug delivery systems.

Prof. Leroux for the third year in a row appears in the Thomson Reuters' list of highly cited scientists"

We congratulate Elena Moroz for winning the Best Poster Award at the Swiss Pharma Science Day in Bern, Switzerland.

Peter Tiefenböck wins the Best Poster Award  

Prof. Leroux and Dr. Davide Brambilla microneedles-based invention developed in collaboration with Prof. Detmar and Dr. Steven Proulx has been selected among the top 5 ETH inventions registered for a patent in 2015.

Dr. Vincent Forster mit der Firma Versantis (ehemaliges Mitglieder der Forschungsgruppe von Prof. Leroux) erhält 2016 den Pfizer Forschungspreis.

Dr. Mattias Ivarsson, Cofounder of Inositec AG and former member of Prof. Leroux's Drug Formulation & Delivery research group, is listed in FORBES as one of the 30 under 30  persons with his non-antibiotic drug candidates that don't promote drug-resistant strains.