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Jan Schimmelpfennig and Sathvik Kadimisetty
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New PhD Student Representatives

Jan Schimmelpfennig and Sathvik Kadimisetty have been elected as the new PhD student representatives at the Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE). Coming from international and interdisciplinary backgrounds, both researchers are united…

Mélina Richard
/ Research

Early-Career Success: Dr. Mélina Richard Wins CHF 85,000 Grant

Dr. Mélina Richard, co-deputy head of the SinuesLab, has been awarded a grant of CHF 85,000 by the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation, less than six months after defending her doctoral thesis, at a very early stage of her…

Cordula Netzer
/ Research

1.3 Million for the Second Phase of the RoLSSroice Project

A research team led by Prof. Cordula Netzer has secured CHF 1.3 million in funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for the second phase of the RoLSSroice project, an ambitious effort to better understand and predict…

Ludwig Kappos
/ People

Prof. em. Dr. Ludwig Kappos honored with John Dystel Prize for MS Research

Prof. em. Dr. Kappos, one of the founding members our Department, has been awarded the 2026 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research—one of the field’s highest honors.

Schulbesuch

High School Students Explore the Future of Surgery

On March 17, 2026, Prof. Dr. Florian Thieringer, head of Swiss MAM, hosted final-year students from Liestal High School at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Hospital of Basel.

FCA

International Award for the Facial and Cranial Anomalies Research Group

The Facial and Cranial Anomalies (FCA) research group at the DBE and the Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Hospital of Basel received the “AI in Dentistry: Faculty and Clinician Impact Award” from the Harvard…

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