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Every four years, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) publishes a roadmap for research infrastructures of national importance. UZH is responsible for five of the 14 prioritized large-scale projects for the period 2025 - 2028. The projects were awarded thehighest level of excellence (A) and are recommended for implementation with the highest priority.
Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastrutures 2025-2028
OR-X: A Translational Hub for Surgical Research and Innovation
The Operating Room X (OR-X) is a state-of-the-art environment for surgical research and teaching. Led by UZH and Balgrist University Hospital, the OR-X simplifies surgical training, without putting an additional strain on patients. It enables researchers to develop and validate newtechnologies and innovations more efficiently. A test phase is currently underway to set up medical technology, IT systems and research equipment, with more cutting-edge tech added on an ongoing basis. The hub is expected to be fully operational by 2027. Parts of this infrastructure arebeing initially funded through UZH’s TRANSFORM program.
Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative (SDPI)
Digital pathology (DP) captures essential diagnostic, prognostic and predictive information on human diseases, and is emerging globally as a new technology standard. Led by UZH, the Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative (SDPI) is a joint research infrastructure of the Universities ofZurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne and Geneva that aims to establish a shared database for digitizing pathology slides and their computer-aided analysis. The SDPI will generate a digital repository starting with 1 million slides collected from 2025 to 2028 and will continue to grow at a rate of100,000 samples per year.
Isotope and Muon Production using Advanced Cyclotron and Target Technologies (IMPACT)
The IMPACT project aims to produce novel and interesting isotopes and muons using the High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) at the Paul Scherrer Institute. For example, radioactive isotopes of the chemical element terbium have properties that can be exploited in medicalapplications, including visualizing and treating tumors. The project will provide such novel radionuclides for applications in medicine, chemistry and pharmacology. But it also involves producing unprecedented quantities of muons. These extremely short-lived elementary particles areused in particle physics experiments and materials science research.
Airborne Research for the Earth System (ARES)
UZH’s ARES project expands an already highly developed research infrastructure to measure terrestrial processes using remote sensing. The project, which is committed to an open access data policy, involves developing and testing high-precision Earth observation instruments such asan imaging spectrometer, multispectral laser scanner and other sensors, which are combined with the relevant computer infrastructure. The aim is to provide indicators that describe key chemical, biological, structural, geometric and physical properties of the rapidly changing environmenton Earth.
Swiss Institute for Drug and Device Development (SI3D)
The Swiss Institute for Drug and Device Development (SI3D) aims to become the Swiss academic center for translational research in veterinary and human medicine. Its mission is to drive biomedical discovery and innovation by providing a state-of-the-art, quality-controlled, best-practice research and development environment. More specifically, it will unify R&D compliance monitoring programs (GLP, GMP, GCP) in a centralized platform and provide skilled personnel. The SI3D infrastructure is aimed at basic and clinical researchers, and its integratedapproach and concentrated expertise are expected to drive biomedical innovation. In addition to UZH (leading house) and the UniversityHospital Zurich, the Universities of Bern and Fribourg are also involved in the infrastructure.
UZH also plays a significant part in the following projects, which were included in the roadmap: EM Frontiers, SwissBioData Ecosystem and Imaging and Omics Platform for Swiss Cititzen Health.
UZH projects of previous Swiss Roadmaps for Research Infrastructures
Period 2021-2024
Swiss National Ultrahigh-Field Solution NMR Facility (1.2 GHz NMR)
Airborne Research Facility for the Earth System (ARES)
Center of Structural Electron Microscopy (COSEM)
Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI)
Period 2017-2020
The Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI)
Swiss Center for Musculoskeletal Biobanking and Imaging and Clinical Movement Analysis (Balgrist Campus)
The future of dark matter detection with liquid xenon XENONnT and DARWIN
Airborne Research Facility for the Earth System (ARES)
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