ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research

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ARTORG is the University of Bern‘s transdisciplinary Center of Excellence for medical technology research. It tackles unmet clinical needs in diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and rehabilitation through innovative healthcare technology. In its unique constellation as an engineering department within a medical faculty, ARTORG has been delivering a decade of ambitious biomedical engineering research, teaching and development across a wide variety of clinical areas. Our master and PhD students work at the pulse of clinical reality to translate their skills and academic experiences directly into healthcare.

If you are interested to learn more, browse our info materials or read ARTORG‘s viewpoints on different aspects of MedTech R and D. We‘d also like to invite you to visit us in Bern or stay connected with us digitally.

Info materials

ARTORG Center

Bern Biomedical Engineering Network

Institute for Surgical Technologies

Annual Reports Medical Faculty

Annual Reports MSc Biomedical Engineering

ARTORG viewpoints

Equal opportunities

Why medical technology needs more women

In biomedical engineering, the association of the word engineer with men is still widespread. Yet women in this and other engineering professions are an absolute necessity! It is impossible to understand, analyze and overcome the challenges that health care has to overcome over the next 50 years from a purely male perspective. More female biomedical engineers are needed!

Computational Audiology

Quantifying inner ear diseases

Inner ear diseases are highly prevalent with daily constant noise exposure and the high stress levels of technologized society. Today, many of these disorders, e.g., sudden deafness, Meniere’s disease, or vestibular migraine, remain poorly understood. Tackling them from an engineering perspective leads to exciting multidisciplinary approaches towards patient-specific and effective treatment.

Diverse teams

Diversity matters, but is it easy to embrace?

Diversity fosters innovation. If you want to conduct competitive research and grow creatively, you need to have diverse perspectives. These multitude of perspectives can provide the required ability to visualize innovative concepts. But is diversity a one-time choice? I think that Swiss research institutions also need to tackle some organizational issues to have and keep truly diverse teams.

Medical Imaging

Empowering Cancer Research with AI

Cancer treatment is challenging: With very high impact on the individual, resistance and reoccurrence are big worries that clinicians try to circumvent. Artificial intelligence can be a powerful ally in combating cancer, yet we still need more robust systems that doctors can trust as a member of their team.

Organs-on-Chip

Lifelike modelling for precision medicine

A hundred years ago, people did not believe that cells could be cultivated outside the body. Today, in-vitro research is the most common form to study biological systems. Likewise, Organs-on-Chip currently still seem futuristic to many. Yet, they are widely seen as the next generation in-vitro models to gain a deeper understanding of human physiology and provide new tools for precision medicine applications.

Surgical technologies

Driving the change as a doctor

As doctors our task is to help people improve their health and their quality of life. This is why any technology in the OR needs to enhance patient outcomes. Otherwise, it's just an expensive toy. My experience shows that especially in ENT surgery, technologies that enable less traumatic interventions have a long tradition and are very useful.

Translational Research

Directing your attention to where it counts

In stroke patients, successful neurorehabilitation depends on the positive interaction of both brain hemispheres. Similarly, in neuroscience, transformative translational research is based on technical and clinical experts collaborating at eye level. Doctors need to step out of their comfort zone to understand technical functionalities. But this does not mean trusting technology blindly.

Visit us

For Schools

ARTORG regularly enables secondary and grammar schools in Switzerland to visit our research center. The visit usually lasts half a day and offers an exciting and varied program. Interactive guided tours with hands-on exhibits are supervised by ARTORG doctoral candidates, and lectures are available on request. This gives students and teachers the opportunity to actively engage with our research and to establish personal contacts. The program is individually coordinated.

A visit to the ARTORG awakens a desire for natural science and technology. We try to convey a lively picture of various fields of study and highly interesting research areas at the interface between medicine and technology. Goals of a visit to the ARTORG can be:

Sparking enthusiasm for science and technology
Provide a realistic picture of the ARTORG study programmes and insight into research
Show perspectives of ARTORG graduates
Deepen the dialogue between grammar schools/middle schools and ARTORG

Use the contact form to book a tour.

Stay connected

ARTORG searches an active transdicciplinary dialogue with the healthcare and engineering communities to exchange ideas and advance and develop innovative medical technology. If you wish to stay in touch, don’t hesitate to contact us or connect with us via Social Media.

For more information about what we do, visit our News section or one of the 12 ARTORG research units.