Title: Development and Application of CHIP-LC-MS Technology for Systems Biology Research
Applicant: Dr. Bernd Wollscheid (ETHZ)
Industry Partner: Dr. John Fjeldsted, Agilent Technologies 
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Strategic Partnership
• CHIP-LC-MS technology development
• Systems Biology
• Proteomics

Title: Systems-level Analysis of Ras-driven Tumor Metabolism Across Growth Conditions – 2D Plastic to 3D to Xenografts to Tumors
Applicant: Prof. Uwe Sauer (ETHZ)
Industry Partner: Dr. Edward Drigger, Agios Pharmaceuticals
Scientific Fields/Keywords: 

• Oncology
• Metabolomics
• In vitro/in vivo cancer models
• Ras tumors metabotyping

Title: Development of a High Precision Cellular Nanoinjection Technology: a Demonstration with HeLa Cells
Applicants: Dr. Tomaso Zambelli (ETHZ), Prof. Julia Vorholt (ETHZ)
Industry Partner: Dr. Michael Gabi, Cytosurge LLC
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Nanobiotechnology
• Single-cell injection
• Metabolites
• Microengineering
• Nanofluidics

Title: Simulation and Visualization of Crowding and Combinatorial Signaling
Applicant: Prof. Heinz Koeppl (ETHZ)
Industry Partner: Dr. Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, ScienceVisuals Sarl
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Stochastic processes
• Computational systems biology
• Spatial simulation
• Computer graphics
• Virtual reality

Title: High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Simultaneous Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Xenobiotic and Endogenous Metabolites
Applicant: Prof. Gérard Hopfgartner (UniGE)
Industry Partner: Dr. Ron Bonner, AB Sciex
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Analytical Chemistry
• High resolution mass spectrometry
• MS acquisition workflow
• Metabolism
• Metabolomics
• MS data mining

Title: Identification of Synaptic Core Pathways as Targets for Autism Treatment
Applicant: Prof. Peter Scheiffele (UniBS)
Industry Partner: Dr. Will Spooren, Hoffmann - La Roche
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Neuroscience
• Autism
• Synapse
• Mouse models
• Pharmacological treatment
• Neural development

Title: High Content Screening by Digital Holographic Imaging
Applicants: Dr. Gerardo Turcatti (EPFL), Dr. Pierre Marquet (EPFL)
Industry Partner: Dr. Yves Emery, Lyncée tec SA
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM)
• High Content Screening (HCS)
• Toxicity assays
• Cell Viability
• Chemical interference siRNA
• Gene knockdown

Title: Development of Kinetic Models of RNA-dependent Silencing
Applicant: Prof. Mihaela Zavolan (UniBS)
Industry Partner: Dr. Nicole Meisner, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Scientific Fields/Keywords:

• Computational modeling
• RNAi
• miRNA
• siRNA
• Gene silencing
• Kinetic model