The Department of Biomedical Engineering contributes to a better future in meeting health care needs by innovative biomedical research and engineering solutions and to translate basic science and engineering into medical knowledge and healthcare innovations. We activate potential by offering unique possibilities and career opportunities for Master students, PhD students and researchers on all levels.
Join the DBE as student, researcher, clinician, collaborator, or donor and help us to
- integrate engineering into medicine
- make high-tech treatment more available
- speed up diagnosis, treatment, and recovery
- solve clinical problems
- go boldly where no one has gone before.
The DBE: Patient-specific research for science-based treatment.

Knowledge is Power. That's Why We Need to Better Understand the Course of MS.
As its name suggests, multiple sclerosis is a complex disease. The better we understand it, the higher the chances that we can cure or stop it. It was only because researchers have understood the logic of the relapses, that they have been…
Save the Date: 8th DBE Research Day on 30 August 2022
You are kindly invited to participate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering's eighth Research Day on the thirtieth of August 2022. This time, it's all about that special spirit it takes to translate research into clinical…
SpectoVR at Museumsnacht Basel
On Friday 20 May, 6pm to 2am, the ‹Museumsnacht Basel› invites visitors to 27 museums and about 200 events. Among them is a presentation of the SpectoVR system in the Institute of Anatomy/Anatomical Museum Basel at Pestalozzistrasse 20.