On March 18, the Swiss National Science Foundation decided to finance the project “miRNAs as integrative determinants of the keratinocyte response to UVB” in the frame of the Sinergia program which aims to encourage collaborative projects. The main applicant of the project is Professor GianPaolo Dotto, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne. In addition to Dr Michalik and Professor Wahli (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne) the other co-requetants are Professor Sabine Werner, (Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich) and Professor Markus Stoffel (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich).