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MxW Celebrates: Team Event

November 17, 2019

A day in Zurich with MaxWell Biosystems! MxW Annual Team Event—to celebrate the third year anniversary of MaxWell Biosystems, the MxW Team gathered in Zurich on the 3rd of October, to enjoy a wonderful day while looking back at these three amazing years. Zurich Instruments At 9:45 AM, the entire team gathered at Technopark Zurich. This would be the location of the first activity of the day. We were warmly welcomed by Dr. Sadik Hafizovic (CEO) and Dr. Flavio Heer (CTO)…

Cell Story Challenge Winners

March 7, 2019

Lucia Garbini

Blog, Competition, News

We are excited to announce the winners of our first Cell Story Challenge. Lill Eva Johansen BCRM, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Neural Circuit Development and Disease Lab – Dr. Jeroen Pasterkamp Research Goal: Interrogating human iPSC-derived motor neurons about nerve conduction in an in vitro model of multifocal motor neuropathy Background and motivation:Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) is a motor neuron-specific autoimmune neuropathy with the electrophysiological hallmark of conduction block, causing asymmetrical weakness in distal parts of limbs which…

MxW Monthly Must-Reads (01.2019)

January 30, 2019

Marie Obien

Blog, MaxWell Monthly Must-Reads, Retina

Welcome to the first MxW Monthly Must-Reads (MMM) of 2019! This month’s selection of articles focuses on retina research. The retina, an extension of the brain and the first stage of visual input processing, extracts information about various features of visual stimuli, including size, contrast, colour, orientation and motion direction. With a diversity of neural subtypes both on the levels of local processing and downstream output via retinal ganglion cells, the retina is an amazing model for studying functional sub-circuits…

Cell Story Challenge 2018

October 16, 2018

Lucia Garbini

Competition

Tell us about your ideas and take your chance to win $2000. Are you a PhD student? Did you always have an experiment in mind but couldn’t find the right technology to carry it out? Do you have your PI’s support? Then join MaxWell Biosystems’ cell story challenge. We are curious to know how would you like to discover you cells story. Our technology can be used to perform long-term, label-free functional imaging for a wide range of biological preparations: cultures of…

MaxWell Biosystems part of Top 100 Swiss Startups in 2018

October 8, 2018

Sander Arets

Awards, Startup

MaxWell Biosystems is honoured to be featured in the TOP 100 Swiss startups for 2018 and proud to announce that we are now ranked 22nd. This made us the third biggest climber in this year’s ranking! Furthermore, we were ranked in the top three start-ups in Basel and one of the top five biotech companies. The TOP 100 Swiss Startup award is organized each year by Venturelab, in cooperation with Handelszeiting and PME Magazine. A panel of both leading investors…