Director of Education Christine Häsler called the Bern Center for Precision Medicine a "beacon for the medicine of the future" when the center was opened in May 2019. Among other things, the BCPM is to use "tailored" therapies for patients in order to avoid adverse effects and to reduce costs.

Zebrafish can flexibly regenerate their hearts after injury – but how they do it exactly is not yet clear. A study by the University of Bern now shows that certain heart muscle cells play a central role in this process. The knowledge gained from this study could be used to initiate a similar repair process in human hearts.

An international research group led by the University of Bern has identified hundreds of genetic weaknesses in the malaria parasite Plasmodium. These are possible targets for new drugs and vaccines which one day could eradicate the disease.

Researchers at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Bern have now discovered a mechanism with which killer cells of the immune system can be reprogrammed. This finding could be of significance to cancer immunotherapy.