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National Future Day 2024@DBE
On the occasion of the National Future Day 2024, 23 curious children between 11 to 13 years came to us on 14 November to take a deep dive into the world of biomedical engineering and learn more about DBE research.
Swiss Robotics Day 2024 Bigger than Ever
After 1000 registrations, the organizers of the Swiss Robotics Day 2024 in Basel had to stop the registration process. Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter from the DBE and Prof. Dr. Aude Billard (EPFL) co-organized the 15th edition of the Swiss Robotics…
Global Impact of Julia Wolleb’s Paper on Diffusion Models for Medical Anomaly Detection
Two years after its publication at the MICCAI 2022 conference in Singapore, Dr Julia Wolleb’s Paper ‹Diffusion Models for Medical Anomaly Detection› has become one of the most influential papers in the field of Medical Image Analysis.
Rauter (new) Member of Executive Board, Sinues (again) Head of Teaching Commission
On the DBE Assembly on 22 October 2024, Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter was elected as new member of the DBE Executive Board. He follows Eva Scheurer who left due to her new role as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Dr. Pablo Sinues was…
Making AI Fit for Ethnic Diversity in Dermatology
Prof. Alexander Navarini and Philippe Gottfrois, PhD student in Navarini’s research group "Digital Dermatology" at the DBE, are training algorithms for the diagnosis of skin diseases in Africa. Collaborating with researchers in Madagascar,…
More Students Than Ever – and More Mobility!
For the first time, our Master Program has more than 100 students, 106, to be precise, which are currently enrolled. This growing number shows that bright young people have a clear sense of the potential of biomedical engineering for their…
Ferda Canbaz Elected Member of SSBE Board
Dr Ferda Canbaz is a new board member of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering. The visionary SSBE was already founded in 1970 (!) and is now one of the main motors of biomedical engineering at Swiss universities and companies. It…
Florian Thieringer on How 3D Printing Revolutionizes Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
Of all the key technologies, 3D printing is currently among those that are developing the fastest. One of the drivers of innovation is craniomaxillofacial surgery, which is either creating new solutions itself or adapting others for its…
Pablo Sinues Re-Elected as Innosuisse Expert
In the Innosuisse Board meeting held on 3 September, Prof. Dr. Pablo Sinues was re-elected as member of the Innosuisse Expert Board for another term until the end of 2025.
Register Now: Swiss Robotics Day on 1 November in Basel!
This year, the most important Swiss event on robotics will take place in Basel – co-organized by Georg Rauter and Nicolas Gerig from BIROMED-Lab. Register now for a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in medical and…
SNSF Grant for Sangeux and Viehweger
Morgan Sangeux of Elke Viehweger’s group Clinical Biomechanics in Paediatric Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Modelling has raised around 650'000 SFR from Swiss National Science Foundation for his four year project "Identifying the Causes…
A Next Generation of Biomedical Engineers
On 16 September, the fall semester of the Joint Master Program in Biomedical Engineering has started. Around 50 new students were shown around the labs, got some initial information and met their new colleagues at our Welcome and Info…
DGRM PhD Thesis Award for Celine Berger
Dr. sc. med. Celine Berger from the “Forensic Medicine and Imaging” research group has received the PhD thesis award from the German Society of Legal Medicine (DGRM). The award has been solemnly handed over to her during the annual meeting…
This was RDX: the 10th DBE Research Day
Translation in the making – in 24 presentations, on more than 60 posters, in 210 brains, across dozens of clinical and scientific disciplines, and in uncounted inspired conversations: As the largest DBE Research Day so far, the 10th very…
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Ten Years of Electrifying Knowledge Transfer on DBE Research Days
Bring clinical and engineering experts together and things get genuinely exciting. Novel ideas are being born at a spectacular rate, addressing unheard ways to solve a complex range of problems. For 10 years now, DBE Research Days guarantee…
DBE and European Society of Coloproctology Collaborate in International Multicenter Study
Dr. Anas Taha, a member of Prof. Cattin’s group Center for medical Image Analysis & Navigation (CIAN), has established a new collaboration with the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) cohort studies team. In this collaboration, data…
Grant for Novel Application of Breath Analysis
Dr. med Ursula Tanvier and Dr. med. Alexandra Schifferli, both collaborators at Pablo Sinues’ Translational Medicine Breath Research group, have raised 65’000 SFR from the Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder Regio Basliniensis.
New Research Group: Dynamic Biomaterials
Welcome to Dr. Zarah Walsh-Korb, junior group leader of the new DBE research group Dynamic Biomaterials. Focusing on mechanoresponsive protein complexes, Walsh-Korb and her team aim to create a foundation for the rational design of…
DBE Annual Report 2023
Some years are so good that even the reporting is fun. 2023 is one of those years, in which the Department of Biomedical Engineering was thriving in its new home at Hegenheimermattweg 167. Maybe you feel the excitement of more people, more…