Childhood cancer, domestic radon exposure and non-ionizing radiation from broadcast transmitters (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/childhood-cancer-domestic-radon-exposure-and-non-ionizing-radiation-from-broadcast-transmitters
The aim of this project is first to develop a radon exposure model and to predict radon exposure at home for children in Switzerland. Second, we want to investigate whether indoor radon concentration
CEFALO - An international case-control study on brain tumours in children and adolescents (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/cefalo-an-international-case-control-study-on-brain-tumours-in-children-and-adolescents
Aim: CEFALO is an international case-control study examining the association between mobile phone use and the risk of brain tumors among children and adolescents. Methods: The study was conducted in D
European study of cohorts for air pollution effects (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/european-study-of-cohorts-for-air-pollution-effects
ESCAPE is a collaboration of European cohort studies for the quantification of human health effects of long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution. ESCAPE responds to a specific FP7 call for a large c
Documentation and Database: Air pollution and Health (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/documentation-and-database-air-pollution-and-health
Since 1985 the documentation database of LUDOK: 'Dokumentationsstelle Luft und Gesundheit' selects, catalogues and summarizes relevant international research papers on the topic of air pollution and h
Collaboration on Malaria drug discovery (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/collaboration-on-malaria-drug-discovery
The goal of this collaborative project with Actelion Pharmaceuticals is the discovery of new antimalarial molecules with unknown mechanism(s) of action. Cell-based antimalarial screens were performed
Antimalarial Drug Screening (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/antimalarial-drug-screening
Our mandate with Medicines for Malaria Venture in Geneva comprises exploratory work on novel compounds from various sources. The goal is to identify novel chemical entities showing antimalarial activi
Drug discovery for malaria based on novel drug targets in the NGBS Consortium (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/drug-discovery-for-malaria-based-on-novel-drug-targets-in-the-ngbs-consortium
The NGBS programme in malaria drug discovery is a collaboration between the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), the Biome