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 well represented the rise of Biomedical Engineering as a new kind of discipline in Basel.
At the phenomenal Biozentrum Basel, Philippe Cattin remembered the humble beginnings, the struggle to find rooms for the avantgarde that had the audacity to see exorbitant potential in connecting technology and medicine in a new problem-solving approach. The impressive lineup of speakers over the entire day as well as the fascinating projects outlined in the posters proved Cattin’s point perfectly.
Ferda Canbaz painted a bright future of the DBE and of the discipline of biomedical engineering by continuing to create the very wave it is surfing. This, Canbaz elaborated, is best achieved by making everybody feel entitled to speak, including the youngest and freshest members of the endeavor.
Pablo Sinues and Lauren Chee had the pleasure to present the winners of the Master’s Thesis Awards and the Best Poster Awards. Winners are: Géraldine Borer, Elisabetta Giaconmelli, both for first place of the Master’s Thesis Awards, Michaela Maintz first place Best Poster Awards, Jokin Zubizarreta Oteiza second place Best Poster Awards, and Yukiko Tomooka third place Best Poster Awards. The new Public Choise Poster Awards went, again, to Jokin Zubizarreta Oteiza.
Opening the celebratory Apéro riche, Hans-Florian Zeilhofer outlined the impressive scale the DBE has reached in the last ten years. The community built by the DBE, Zeilhofer said, now has all the knowledge, all the skills, all the infrastructure, and all the translational spirit to change medicine and to shape the future. He invited biomedical engineering researchers to embrace entrepreneurial thinking as part of the translational process and of scaling creativity.
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Thanks a lot to Hans-Florian, to the speakers and session hosts, to all participants, to the great suppport of the Biozentrum team, and the Restaurant du Coeur for the lovely apéro riche!