RESEARCH The Friedrich Miescher Institute is devoted to fundamental biomedical research. We employ new technologies to explore basic molecular mechanisms of cells and organisms in health and disease. EPIGENETICS Marc Bühler Rafal Ciosk Witold Filipowicz Susan Gasser Helge Grosshans Patrick Matthias Antoine Peters Dirk Schübeler   GROWTH CONTROL Joy Alcedo Mohamed Bentires-Alj Ruth Chiquet Brian A. Hemmings Jan Hofsteenge Nancy Hynes Yoshikuni Nagamine Nicolas Thomä   NEUROBIOLOGY Silvia Arber Pico Caroni Rainer Friedrich Andreas Lüthi Thomas Oertner Jan Pielage Filippo Rijli Botond Roska   EMERITUS FACULTY Link to pages of former group leaders who have retired from laboratory research.     FMI Report 07/08 Download Order copy