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The Wyss Center is an independent, non-profit, translational research center based in Geneva

The Wyss Center is an independent, non-profit, translational research center based in Geneva, Switzerland.

16/07/2026

🧠 What does it take to turn breakthrough neuroscience into better care for patients?

At Wyss Geneva, we believe the greatest discoveries are those that make a difference in people‘s lives. By connecting pioneering research, AI-powered technologies, entrepreneurship, and clinical expertise, we aim to move scientific breakthroughs from the lab to the clinic and into solutions that improve the lives of people living with neurological and mental health conditions.

🎥 Created for , this video offers a glimpse into the people, technologies, and collaborations helping bring that vision to life.

11/06/2026

🎥🧠Wyss Geneva steps into its next chapter.

Today we’re announcing Dr. Tracy Laabs as our new Director, effective July 1st — and honoring Prof. Dr. Erwin Böttinger for three transformative years at the helm.

Under Erwin’s leadership, Wyss Geneva became more than a research center: six companies spun off in two years, a robust pipeline in AI-guided neuromodulation and minimally invasive neurotechnology, and the launch of the AI Hub with our partners across the Geneva ecosystem. In his words: “I leave knowing the Center is in exceptional hands.”

And those hands know this place well. Tracy is one of our founding figures — Founding Deputy Director from 2015, then Chief Development Officer and Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships. She doesn’t need to learn the Wyss Center’s culture. She built it and lived it.

What does she want people to feel in this new chapter? Continuity. Trust. And most importantly — possibility.

🎬 Meet Tracy in this video portrait and hear her vision for the future of and brain health.

Visit wysscenter.ch for more information

10/03/2026

🧠The gut and brain are more connected than we once imagined. Often called the body’s second brain, the enteric nervous system (ENS) plays a key role in gastrointestinal function and is increasingly linked to neurological disorders.

🔬New publications from WyssGeneva’s NeuroGI team introduce technologies helping researchers study ENS activity and structure at entirely new scales:
🔹A miniature endoscope for high-resolution gut recordings in vivo
🔹enGLOW, a 3D microscopy workflow for organ-scale ENS imaging

These advances are opening new pathways for understanding gut–brain interactions and developing future therapies.

🎥 In this video: Specialized sensory cells known as neuropods detect signals from within the gut and communicate directly with the enteric nervous system — illustrating how the gut actively senses and processes information.

👉Learn more: wysscenter.ch/update/neurobiology-driven-engineering-gut-brain/

05/03/2026

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🧠 What question about the brain would you love to have answered in your lifetime?

For Dr. Tracy Laabs, it’s understanding which neural circuits are involved in each individual person’s neural state. While we often know what circuits are implicated when things go wrong, much more research is needed to capture individual differences and how neural circuit function shapes behavior.

03/03/2026

What if we could program the brain, without drugs and without invasiveness?

🧠 Dandelion Science, a Wyss supported venture, is creating the world’s first generative neuromodulation platform, designed to shape brain network dynamics through AI-generated sensory stimulation.

⚡ Moving beyond chemistry. Toward precision. Toward the future of brain therapy

25/02/2026

🧠With an ageing population, rising healthcare costs and fast-moving medical innovation, Geneva’s HealthTech ecosystem is taking action.

Wyss Geneva, and recently launched an AI Hub at to support the responsible use of in healthcare and improve brain health.

🎥 In this , produced with , Eric Ménétré, Idris Guessous and Antoine Geissbühler share the vision behind the Hub and the real-world experiments already underway.

🎬 Watch the full interview👆

24/02/2026

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🔬 Biggest recent breakthrough in brain imaging?

For Laura Batti, it’s LICONN, a project from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria with Google.

🧠 By expanding brain tissue and combining light microscopy with AI, researchers can now map synapses in extraordinary detail, opening new paths to understand disorders like depression and autism

19/02/2026

🌍Last week, our Director was in Qatar, engaging with leading academic, clinical, and innovation partners.

From research and precision health to AI and entrepreneurship, the visit created valuable opportunities to exchange perspectives across a remarkable ecosystem, including , , , , .

🧠At the heart of the conversations: a shared ambition to connect innovation and care by translating patient-centered technologies into clinical realities that truly serve patients.

🤝Grateful for the warm welcome and inspiring discussions throughout the week. Looking forward to continuing the dialogue and exploring new collaborations. 🚀

18/02/2026

🌳 Cerebellum: The Tree of Life

This stunning image of a human cerebellum, captured with the Wyss Center’s mesoSPIM light-sheet microscope, reveals the intricate network of blood vessels labelled with lectin.

Blood flow is vital to brain health, and its dysregulation is linked to neurodegenerative diseases and stroke. By visualizing the brain’s vasculature in such detail, researchers are uncovering new insights into how these conditions develop and progress

12/02/2026

📘New book release: Light Sheet Microscopy📘

We're proud to see Wyss expertise featured in this new reference work on light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM), a powerful technique for high-resolution, large-scale 3D imaging.🧠🔬

Wyss specialists Laura Batti and Stéphane Pagès contributed a chapter on running LSFM in multi-user imaging facilities, sharing practical insights to help expand access to advanced 3D imaging.

📖🔗 More information at wysscenter.ch

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