Welcome

The Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP) is a virtual network that brings together more than

150 research groups. It is an interdisciplinary center of competence of the University of Zurich. Integrative physiology combines research on the level of molecules, cells, organs and the whole organism with the aim to bring the complex functions of the human body into focus.

Basic and clinically-oriented research groups are linked through the funding of Cooperative Projects, covering topics from A as in auto-immune diseases to Z as in zebrafish mutants.

Two assistant professorships have been established in the fields of Oxygen Transport and Utilization and Epithelial Cancers.

State-of-the-art equipment, techniques and services related to cardio-vascular, renal, respira-tory, muscle and metabolism functions are provided by a Core Facility for Rodent Physiology.

Educational activities cover the PhD Program in Integrative Molecular Medicine (imMed) and the Master Program in Human Biology.

Since 2008, the ZIHP organizes in cooperation with the Stiftung Careum Zürich a series of public events: Wissen-schafft Wissen. Prominent speakers present hot topics, followed by lively discussions with the audience.

The ZIHP is a landmark in the European physiology landscape, since among the most-cited 30 physiologists of Europe are five from the ZIHP.

The ZIHP is funded by the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Integrative Human Physiology.