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The Tenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health will be in-person at the 150-year-old campus of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN "Music City USA," from July 8-10, 2025. Students, researchers, clinicians, teachers and others are all welcome to join this opportunity to hear the latest advances from renowned scientists, to present your own research, and to attend workshops, discussions and to renew old friendships and make new ones. And to enjoy all that Nashville and the region has to offer! Register by April 30 to reserve your place and get the lowest rates.
IEM Member Johanna Stierlin wins the 2024 Master's Prize of the Ober-Gerwern Society Bern with her Master's thesis. The thesis is a historical and technical examination of anatomical wax models based on human bone specimens from the Parisian workshop Vasseur-Tramond-Rouppert. The Institute of Evolutionary Medicine co-supervised the work on these models. Her Poster for the master thesis was the 1st prize winner of the poster competition at the 15th Annual Conference for University Collections 2024 in Zurich.
IEM Academic Guest Prof. Luciano Saso (University La Sapienza, Rome) was listed as a highly cited researcher in 2024 by Clarivate. The selection criteria include the publication of multiple papers over the past decade which rank in the top 1% by citations in the Web of Science™ in the respective research field and publication year. This applies to 1 in 1,000 researchers worldwide.
Prof. Luciano Saso is specialised in the research of the antioxydant effects of the transcriptor factor NRF2. At the IEM he collaborates with the Clinical Evolutionary Medicine group and the Evolutionary Pathophysiology and Mummy Studies group in a project on the evolution of NRF2. Furthermore, he is lecturing on the history of pharmacology on behalf of the Medical and Human Remains Collection group.
An exhibition recently hosted by the UZH atrium
In September 2024, the IEM celebrated it's 10th birthday!
We commemorated the day with an event showcasing the past, present and future of the IEM
