Professor Dr Max Cloëtta Foundation
Promotion and support of medical research
The Professor Dr Max Cloëtta Foundation supports and promotes medical research as well as related disciplines of natural sciences in Switzerland.


Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation
Promotion and support of medical research
The Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation supports and promotes medical research as well as related disciplines of natural sciences in Switzerland.
History
Learn more about the foundation’s history.
PURPOSE
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FUNDING
We support research at Swiss universities, clinics and institutes.
2025 Cloëtta Prize awarded to researchers from Zurich and Geneva
The Cloëtta Prize 2025 is awarded to a researcher from ETH Zurich and a research duo from the University of Geneva.
Zurich – For the 52nd time, the Professor Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation is awarding its prestigious prize for medical research. This year, the prize goes to Prof. Nicola Aceto, Professor of Molecular Oncology at ETH Zurich, as well as to Dr. Virginie Hamel and Prof. Paul Guichard, who jointly lead a research group in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva.
The award ceremony is to be held on October 31, 2025, at 5pm at the ETH Zurich.
A comprehensive press release will follow in September 2025.
We support and promote medical research
“Research promotion in Switzerland is not exclusively a task of our government. On the contrary, two thirds of the means allotted to research and development originate from business. Private foundations also play a very important role in this respect. Wellknown Prize awards – such as the Cloëtta Prize – accentuate the importance of foundations for the scientific world.”
Ruth Dreifuss, Federal Counsellor
Volume 1 of the Monograph Professor Dr Max Cloëtta Foundation
