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...
SNSF professorship
PD Dr. Cristina Granziera joined the DBE in 2017 and now attracted the second professorship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at our department. Congratulations to this achievement and success! Cristina Granziera is a...
Launch of Master program
The Department will officially start its master program in Biomedical Engineering this fall semester. Students interested in the program are invited to visit www.msc.dbe.unibas.ch for further information. Applications for the program are...SRF:Virtual Reality: Technological revolution or just a gadget?
Research of the Center for medical Image Analysis & Navigation of Prof. Philippe Cattin has been featured in the SRF research broadcast "Einstein". The SpectoVive virtual reality system is used by Basel medical students in their anatomy...
3rd DBE Research Day 2017
We thank all contributors and participants of the 3rd DBE Research Day on 23 August 2017! Prof. Christoph A. Meier, Chief Medical Officer of the University Hospital Basel, welcomed to the event and underlined the promising future of...
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BRIDGE Proof of concept grant for Dr. Tino Töpper
Dr. Tino Töpper of the Biomaterials Science Center has been awarded a BRIDGE Proof of concept grant of 120,000 CHF for the project “Enhancing the capabilities of artificial muscle implants using low-voltage dielectric elastomer sensors”. ...
A successful Movement Analysis Summer School 2017
Between 9 and 11 August, 2017, the first Movement Analysis Summer School was successfully held in cooperation with the Physiotherapy Program of the Bildungszentrum Gesundheit Basel-Stadt (BZG) in Münchenstein. During the three days, 9...
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«Biomaterials Science Center» situated at the University of Basel becomes 10 years old
With a public symposium in honor of Thomas Straumann at the ZLF within the Faculty of Medicine, the 10th anniversary of the «Biomaterials Science Center» of the University of Basel was celebrated on Thursday, 17 May, 2017. The Center...
New SNSF-project funded
Dr. Francesco Santini, senior researcher at the Division of Radiological Physics, University Hospital Basel, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, attracted a SNF project on the “Development and Clinical...