• Cover story for Ignacio Filippon et al. in Oral Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2024
• Daphne Schonegg successfully defended her Master's thesis on "Three-dimensional hard X-ray micro-tomographic imaging of the human palatal anatomy and gracilis muscle"in November 2024
• Georg Schulz receied the Best Paper Award of the SPIE Optics + Photonics, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XV August 2024
• Mattia Humble received the Best Poster Award of the SPIE Optics + Photonics, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XV August 2024
• Call for papers: SPIE - Biologically Inspired Materials, Processes, and Systems (BIMPS) 2025. Submit abstracts by 11 September 2024
• "Multi-resolution X-ray phase-contrast and dark-field tomography of human cerebellum with near-field speckles" has been highlighted as Editor's Pick of the Biomedical Optics Express in December 2023
• Organization of the Symposium on Regenerative Medicine and Medical Imaging in Strasbourg in December 2023
• Hans Deyhle and Christine Tanner inspired kids at the Future Day in November 2023
• BMC organized the SSBE Annual Meeting in September 2023
• Christine Tanner and Guido Sigron illustrated how to grow together as an interdisciplinary research team at the DBE Research Day in August 2023
• Alexandra Migga has won the Master’s Thesis Award from the Alumni of Human Medicine Basel for her Master’s Thesis on “Human tooth cementum, paraffin-embedded nerve and zebrafish embryo: Comparative three-dimensional imaging study with micrometer resolution” in September 2023
• Bert Müller gave the keynote presentation at 5th SSB+RM Young Scientist Symposium - Bringing Materials to Life in January 2023
• Bert Müller was elected as Vice President and Secretary of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) in November 2022
• Bert Müller is the winner of the 2022 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award (photo)
• Griffin Rodgers and Mattia Humble received the best Student Poster Award of the SPIE Optics + Photonics, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIV August 2022
• Mahyar Joodaki received the prize for the best Master's thesis 2021/2022 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE), University of Basel
• Mahyar Joodaki received the prize for the best Master's thesis 2022 in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel
• Cover page for Remi Ammann et al. in Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol. 9 - No. 3, May 2022
• Bottneuro AG on the Forbes list of spin-offs to watch 2021
• Alexandra Migga received the Best Paper Award of the SPIE Optics + Photonics, August 2021, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIII
• Innosuisse project awarded funding in January 2020 (04/2020 - 10/2021, 560 kCHF)
• Acthera Therapeutics AG: Pharmaceutical and diagnostic products and technologies was founded in October 2019
• Organization of Bioinspired and Biointegrated Materials as New Frontiers Nanomaterials IX in September 2019
• Presentation of the study "Smart liposomes for delivery at stenosed vessels" at the 30th annual conference European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) in September 2019
• Bottmedical AG: Nanotechnology for digital health was founded in May 2019
• Gebert Rüf Stiftung: Nano Engineered Neural Interfaces - NENI (300 kCHF) Collaborative project between University Hospital Basel, EMPA, PSI, FHNW, and University of Basel (PI Bekim Osmani)
• SNSF project award: Hierarchical X-ray imaging of the entire human brain (04/2019-03/2023, 855 kCHF)
• Award for the dissertation of Dr. Anna Khimchenko June 2017

Archive

• Aktive Implantate: Wie sich Goldatome auf Gummi kleben lassen
• Celebration of 10th anniversary of the Biomaterials Science Center
• Der Roentgenblick ins Kleinhirn
• Researchers investigate thin silicone films for artificial muscles
• Soap bubbles for treatment of constricted blood vessels
• Exploring X-ray phase tomography
• Mechanically active bone implants
• NanoTera project for artificial muscles

BMC in the news

• Histology-validated 3D imaging of soft and hard human tissue, Uni News
• No-stress, a specific coronary vasodilator, KTI Video 04/2014 (120MB)
• With nanotechnolgoy against arteriosclerosis, Gesundheit heute (Swiss TV) 01/2014
• Nanocontainer, Uni News
• Nanocontainer, Apotheken Umschau
• Nanocontainer, Der Sonntag
• Nanoparticles, SNF Horizonte (all 2012)
• Interview, SNI Update 08/2014
• Wenn der Physiker mit dem Mediziner ... Chemie Plus 02/2012
• Brain structures, TeleBasel 7 vor 7 (1.8MB)
• Biomaterials research gets a boost in Basel, swissinfo
• Lab opening, BZ Zeitung
• Nanotechnology in der Zahnmedizin DRS 3 (Swiss radio, 8.3MB)

In 2005, the Medical Faculty established the research and education focus, Clinical Morphology and Biomedical Engineering CMBE. With the generous endowment from Thomas Straumann, the Chair of Materials Science in Medicine has been established within CMBE.

The purpose is to make biomaterials science a major new growth area for research and technology development in Basel. The BMC is attracting third-party funds from public, NGO and private sources to create a versatile, innovative organization, working at interdisciplinary boundaries and intimately linked to the needs of the University Clinics.