{"id":3112,"date":"2024-10-03T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/led.digicube.dev\/the-led-at-the-swiss-tropical-institute-in-basel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:27:55","slug":"the-led-at-the-swiss-tropical-institute-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/the-led-at-the-swiss-tropical-institute-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"The LED at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 22, the LED visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisstph.ch\/de\/\">Swiss Tropical Institute (Swiss TPH)<\/a> in Basel. The aim of this meeting was to identify common interests and approaches for possible collaboration. The personal welcome by Swiss TPH Director J\u00fcrg Utzinger, the exciting presentations, the guided tour of the architecturally interesting building and the raising of the Liechtenstein flag &#8211; a first at the Tropical Institute &#8211; made this visit an unforgettable event.    <\/p>\n\n<p>During the presentations and discussions, &#8220;agricultural health&#8221; quickly emerged as the central point of contact, which roughly speaking is about &#8220;health research in agriculture&#8221;, a still young field of research. Both organizations contribute their specific expertise in this area and research the numerous interactions between agricultural practices, human health and various environmental influences from different perspectives. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"gb-text small__font\"><em>Pictured above: J\u00fcrg Utzinger, Director Swiss TPH; Kaspar Wyss, Vice-Director Swiss TPH; Nicole Probst-Hensch, Head of Department; S\u00e9bastien Gagneux, Head of Department; Fenella Beynon, Head of Unit and Talia Salzmann, Project Manager; Yvette Endriss, Senior Laboratory Technician and of course our almost complete LED team: Andreas Sicks, CEO; Claudia Foser-Laternser, CFO; Alexandra Ospelt, Communications and three of the four LED project managers Patrik Aus der Au, Marion Reichenbach, Miriam Speh and Racky Bilele Ba, LED representative in Senegal.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 22, the LED visited the Swiss Tropical Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel. The aim of this meeting was to identify common interests and approaches for possible collaboration. The personal welcome by Swiss TPH Director J\u00fcrg Utzinger, the exciting presentations, the guided tour of the architecturally interesting building and the raising of the Liechtenstein &#8230; <a title=\"The LED at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/the-led-at-the-swiss-tropical-institute-in-basel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The LED at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}