RDX: 10th DBE Research Day

Biomedical Engineering – the art and craft of bridging the gap between engineering and clinical practice – has gained a tremendous momentum in Basel within the last ten years, as head of DBE Philippe Cattin stated in his opening speech. The DBE is not only perfect proof for this development, but it is at the same time a major driving force behind it. As knowledge in both fields continues to grow expontentially, specialization becomes an issue, an issue that the DBE meets by connecting the two worlds, bridging the gaps, and creating feasable solutions from scratch.

The DBE Research Day has always been the center stage for the inprired-inspiring exchange in which the boldest and often the best ideas first surface. Through the last ten years, this event developed from some kind of shop window that was supposed to attract clinicians and make them aware of technological opportunities to a vivid forum for an new kind of specialization: translational collaboration.

In his celebratory remarks, Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, spiritus rector of the DBE and the MIRACLE Project, called the DBE "ground zero for some of the most fascinating translational successes we have seen in the last decade". In her closing remarks, Ferda Canbaz underlined that the DBE should keep creating the very wave it is surfing by persistently including the next generations into its creative process.

In other words: the 10th DBE Research Day has laid the foundation for the next ten events. The 10th birthday of the DBE will be celebrated in November.

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