Micheline Maire has been awarded with the prize of the best publication in basic sleep research by the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC), for her work on “Sleep ability mediates individual differences in the vulnerability to sleep loss: evidence from a PER3 polymorphism. Maire M, Reichert CF, Gabel V, Viola AU, Strobel W, Krebs J, Landolt HP, Bachmann V, Cajochen C, Schmidt C. Cortex. 2014 Mar;52:47-59”. The award of 5000.- CHF has been handed out at this years annual meeting of the SSSSC 18.05.2014 in Lucerne.
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Prof. em. Anna Wirz-Justice has been awarded a honorary membership of the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC) at the annual meeting in Luzern (18.05.2014). Her excellent merits in Chronobiology research on the international level, but also on the national level, where she engaged for Light Therapy in SAD and was a founding member and also president (1994-1997) of the SSSSC, underline her pivotal role in setting up the goals and spirits of the society.