Nano Argovia funding for Bert Müller and Georg Schulz
Together with the partners at Paul Scherrer Institute (Dr Joan Vila-Comamala and Dr Christian David) as well as the industrial partner XRnanotech (Dr Florian Döring), Dr Georg Schulz and Prof. Bert Müller successfully applied for Nano...
Book by Rauter, Zam, Cattin
Due to the pandemic situation the Medical Robotics Week 2020 (MRW 2020), organized by Prof. Georg Rauter, Prof. Philippe Cattin, Prof. Azhar Zam from DBE as well as Prof. Robert Riener from ETH, had to be postponed to June 2021. However,...
Braissant in ‹Frontiers in Microbiology›
Olivier Braissant, head of the Biological Calorimetry Lab, has published a paper in ‹Frontiers in Microbiology›, the world’s most-cited Microbiology journal. The paper is an exhaustive review of methods to measure metabolism and certainly...
The DBE joins the Twitter community
On 11 November, the DBE started activities on Twitter in order to address larger audiences, attract attention from potential Master and PhD students, science journalists, potential and actual collaborators and others.
Horizon Europe Programme 2021 focuses on “Health”
Euresearch and the Grants Office at University of Basel offer an info event on the forthcoming “Health Cluster” in the new European Research and Innovation Programm Horizon Europe. The aim of this event is to inform participants from...
Töpper wins Science Slam Award 2020 at the Swiss Medtech Day
The audience of the Swiss Medtech Day voted Tino Töpper Science Slammer of the year 2020 for the presentation of Bottmedical’s R&D project «Tongue fitness training for sleep & speech therapy».
Rauter associate member of NCCR Robotics, chair of IFToMM Switzerland
Georg Rauter is now associate member of the National Centre of Competence in Research Robotics. Further, he is designated chair for the membership organization Switzerland of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and...
An almost normal 6th DBE Research Day!
This year’s Research Day of the Department of Biomedical Engineering took place on 8 Sept at the ›Zentrum für Lehre und Forschung‹ of the University Hospital Basel. More participants than ever before (about 130 physical and 60 virtual)...
Research study «nose to knee» in the magazine «Akzent» of Pro Senectute
The magazine «Akzent» of Pro Senectute has published an interesting article about the latest developments from the research study «nose to knee».
3D Print Lab in the magazine «Akzent» of Pro Senectute
The revolutionary process of 3D printing is being increasingly used at the point-of-care. A pioneer in the practical implementation is the University Hospital Basel (USB) with its interdisciplinary 3D Print Lab led by the...
1st MD-PhD SNF Grant at the DBE
Within their "National MD-PhD Programme", the Swiss Academies of Arts and Science and the Swiss National Science Foundation are funding the PhD project of Philippe Valmaggia at CIAN. His project is the first to be funded within the National...
Pablo Sinues recipient of the 4th SGMS Awards
The Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry grants its 4th SGMS Awards to Pablo Sinues. The SGMS award is awarded to promising scientists working in Switzerland or promising Swiss scientists working abroad, for outstanding independent research in...
MIRACLE II: CHF 12 million funding for cutting-edge surgical technology
The Werner Siemens Foundation is extending its funding for the “MIRACLE” project by CHF 12 million to a total of CHF 27 million.
Low-Field MRI in Frontiers in Physics
Mathieu Sarracanie and Najat Salameh have been featured in the Rising Stars collection of Frontiers in Physics.
AOT AG successfully completes all surgeries required for the First-In-Man clinical study of the CARLO® device for laser-assisted cutting of human bone
On June 19, 2020, the Swiss Medtech company Advanced Osteotomy Tools (AOT) successfully completed the last surgery required for the first-in-man clinical study of its proprietary CARLO® device. The aim of the study was to demonstrate the...
1st Price SNC Nano Image Award 2020
Griffin Rodgers, Georg Schulz and Bert Müller are co-authors of an (accepted) publication in SMALL. Based on the unique µCT data, Jan Stephan Bolten from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Basel has produced an...
New contrast agent enhances visualization of blood vessels
In the framework of the SNSF-funded project HR-Kidney - High Resolution 3D Functional Anatomy Database of the Kidney (153523), Bert Müller (Biomaterials Science Center) and his colleagues from the University of Zurich have developed the...
Stübinger co-investigator in a COVID-19 project supported by BRCCH
The project "Development and Validation of a Laminar Flow Test to Detect COVID-19 immunity in Saliva" will receive proof-of-concept funding within the Fast-Track-Program of the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health.
Nature: SpectoVR in Ophtalmology
A (featured) synopsis of the history of ophtalmological imaging in "Nature" addresses a cooperation between Philippe Cattin, Peter Maloca (University of Basel/Moorfields Eye Hospital London) and Adnan Tufail (Moorfields Eye Hospital...