Welcome

to the official homepage of the newly founded Zentrum für Evolutionäre Medizin, UZH.

As a transdisciplinary bridge between the past, the present and the future, researchers at the ZEM will study the general evolutionary aspects of, e.g. disease aetiology (contributing factors such as lifestyle or infectious environmental factors) and disease patterns (prevalence, socio-economic stratifications, etc.). Primarily, musculoskeletal and joint diseases as well as the molecular evolution of disease pathogens will be studied.

Spotlight on our ongoing research:

(Source: Morphology Group ZEM)

75X macroscope view of trabeculae from a bone biopsy of Iranian Salt mummy No. 4

The ZEM in the current specialised press:

New Scientist, March 2011, New Scientist March 2011 Homo civicus
New Scientist, January 2011, New Scientist Jan 2011 Death on the Nile

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