5th Research Day 2019
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE) at the University of Basel warmly invites you to the 5th DBE Research Day! The DBE bridges the gap between natural science and medicine in order to improve procedures and technologies for...
First-In-Man Clinical Use of the CARLO® Device from AOT at the University Hospital Basel
AOT AG Announces First-In-Man Clinical Use of the CARLO® Device at the University Hospital Basel, Performing the First Robotic Bone-Cut with a Laser Worldwide.
Article of the AMT lab in the Swiss Research Magazine Horizons
Tech downgrades can make MRI applications cheaper and more flexible
SpectoVR at the 43rd ICMM World Congress on Military Medicine 2019
As part of the 43rd ICMM World Congress on Military Medicine 2019, more than 2000 physicians from all over the world were able to experience the use of the groundbreaking 3D software SpectoVR, developed by the MIRACLE team under the...
Temperature taking – on a tiny scale.
Minute changes in temperature can be used to analyze the growth of bacteria. This technique, known as microcalorimetry, is being applied in various innovative ways by Basel University researchers to aid the development of medical implants,...
Exhibition “Inside Motion. The Fourth Dimension of Medicine” at Pharmaziemuseum Basel, April 27 – June 1, 2019
The exhibition “Inside Motion. The Fourth Dimension of Medicine” invites visitors to change place with surgeons inside a virtual operation theatre and to learn about organ motion, real time tracking and new treatment measures.
Science Robotics Publication for Georg Rauter and Nicolas Gerig
Prof. Georg Rauter and Dr. Nicolas Gerig from the BIROMED-Lab at the Department of Biomedical Engineering successfully published an article in Science Robotics. The article is titled When a robot teaches humans: Automated feedback...
SNSF Eccellenza Grant for Pablo Sinues
Prof. Pablo Sinues of the University Children's Hospital Basel and the Department of Biomedical Engineering has attracted an Eccellenza Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Launch of the Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is very glad to welcome its new master students on September 17, 2018. After the opening of the Department in 2015, we are pleased to launch the Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering in the...
Succesful DBE Research Day 2018 / save the date Research Day 2019
The Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE) is glad to have welcomed almost 150 guests to its fourth Research Day. Ensuing the motivating welcome speech by Prof. Dr. Urs Frey, Medical Director of the University Children’s Hospital Basel,...
DBE Research Day on September 5
You are warmly invited to join us during the public Research Day of the Department of Biomedical Engineering on September 5, 2018, at the University Hospital Basel. DBE researchers will illustrate their fascinating projects in presentations...
1st Place Award for Prof. Azhar Zam and Yakub Bayhaqi
Prof. Azhar Zam and Yakub Bayhaqi from the Biomedical Laser and Optics Group at the Department of Biomedical Engineering obtained the 1st Place Award for their paper "Neural Network in Tissue Characterization of Optical Coherence Tomography...
Bronze Medal for Prof. Georg Rauter and Ivan Sušić
Prof. Rauter and Ivan Sušic from the BIROMED-Lab at the Department of Biomedical Engineering obtained a Bronze Medal for their paper "Enabling Minimal Invasive Palpation in Flexible Robotic Endoscopes" in the "Best Student Paper Award" at...PhD in Biomedical Engineering – Testimonial by Marek Zelechowski
The Medical Faculty of the University of Basel offers a Doctoral Degree in Biomedical Engineering (PhD, Dr. sc. med.). This program provides advanced educational tools to complement the existing doctoral supervision. Mark Zelechowski, a PhD...
DBE Summer School 2018
Organized by the PhD Program Biomedical Engineering and the MIRACLE project this years’ DBE Summer School 2018 took place from 03.06.2018 to 08.06.2018 at Zschokke house in Engelberg, the beautiful heart of Switzerland. The Summer School...
New SNSF Project Funded
Prof. Pablo Sinues (UKBB, DBE) attracted a SNF project on Diagnosis of Bacterial Pneumonia. Pneumonia is the main infectious cause of death worldwide, mainly among children. However, the high morbidity and mortality of pneumonia is partly...
First patient uses SpectoVR software during a consultation at the University Hospital Basel
The University Hospital in Basel is working with the virtual reality software SpectoVR developed by the MIRACLE team at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel. SpectoVR is a renderer for three-dimensional medical...
SpectoVR software displayed at the GPU Technology Conference 2018
NVidia Corporation, one of the biggest technology companies worldwide and leading producer of graphics processing units (GPU), displayed the groundbreaking SpectoVR software developed in the MIRACLE project at specifically for this occasion...
EAP in action
Enhancing the capabilities of artificial muscle implants Left: The dielectric elastomer sensor prototype on flexible substrates. Right: The team from the Biomaterials Science Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering at the...