As DBE experiences the tremendous momentum that itself helps generate for the discipline of Biomedical Engineering, the year 2024 has turned out to be even more successfully turbulent than 2023. Here we picked out 4 highlights to provide a glimpse of what has become our new normal. 

Ten years ago, in November 2014, the Department of Biomedical Engineering was founded. From its genuinely humble beginnings, it took a steep rise that continues to accelerate and will do so in the next years. At the 10th DBE Research Day on 21 August 2024, the 10th birthday was celebrated, with Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, founding father and major inspiration looking back and into the future. Find impressions and more details here.

Prof. Georg Rauter acted as co-organizer of the most successful Swiss Robotics Day 2024, together with Prof. Aude Billard (EPFL). Nicolas Gerig (BIROMED-Lab) assisted in the organisation,  and many members of BIROMED-Lab-Team helped out at Messe Basel to realize an impressively inspiring event. Details can be found here, see also the SRD 2024 website.

With the new semester, the Joint Master Program in Biomedical Engineering has entered the three-figure world of enrolled students. This constant growth shows that Biomedical Engineering started to be on the radar of the brightest and most most explorative young people. With these new students comes more need for organisation and administration, to guarantee for the highest possible quality in education and of the  future of Biomedical Engineering as a discipline. Find more information here.

In 2024, the CADENCE-Lab was equipped with cutting-edge technology and started working. It offers possibilities and opportunities unique in Switzerland in “Robot-assisted Theragnostics”, “Functional Biomechanics”, “Paediatric Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Modelling”, and “Spine Biomechanics”. The CADENCE-Lab is one of four DBE Core Facilities.