On October 22, 2025, Karin Schmid-Rechberger successfully defended her PhD thesis: “Towards a Metastatic Vascularized Tumor-on-Chip.”
22. October 2025
Group head of ARTORG's new Acoustic Robotics Systems Lab (ARSL) will give a talk on Monday, December 08, 2025, as part of DBMR's Research Conference Series. His talk is titled From Physics to Medicine: Translating Ultrasound Microrobotics from Preclinical Models toward Clinical Applications.
08. December 2025
On October 29, 2025, Pedro Pereira Amado successfully defended his PhD thesis: Investigating the interplay between urine flow, crystal deposition, and bacteria to improve the performance of ureteral stents.
29. October 2025
Philipp Aebischer (Hearing Research Laboratory), Matteo Frigelli (Computational Bioengineering Group) and Tatiana Kochetkova (Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Group) have each received a SNSF Spark Grant in October 2025, securing project funding for the next year.
05. November 2025
We are thrilled to announce that, as of November 03, 2025, ARTORG's portfolio of research groups includes the Acoustic Robotics Systems Lab (ARSL), led by Prof. Daniel Ahmed, who has previously conducted his research at ETH Zurich.
03. November 2025
On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, Prof. Dr. Dario Cazzoli, affiliated group head of the GER group, gave his inaugural lecture for the Professorship of Neuropsychology at the University of Lucerne.
29. October 2025
Researchers from the AI in Medical Imaging Lab (Raphael Sznitman) and from the Computational Bioengineering group (Philippe Büchler) have been granted two BRIDGE Discovery and one BRIDGE Proof-of-Concept grant in Autumn 2025. The grants underline our center's excellence in AI, Deep Learning and surgical technologies, rapid oncology diagnostics and refractive eye care intervention planning.
22. October 2025
Of the five projects accepted for the first stage, ARTORG Spin-Off TightValve, a venture of the Cardiovascular Engineering Group, was one of three start-ups selected for Venture Kick's second financial and entrepreneurial support stage, receiving CHF 40,000 in funding to bring their device to hospitals and patients.
22. October 2025
The University of Bern's ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research welcomes the announcement by EssilorLuxottica S.A., a global leader in vision care and optical innovation, of its acquisition of RetinAI AG, a spin-out founded at the ARTORG Center. The transaction marks the first major commercial exit of an ARTORG origin start up and the first ever acquisition and exit of a University of Bern medtech spin out to a global industry leader.
16. October 2025
At this year's meeting of the Swiss, Austrian and German Societies for Biomedical Engineering, Salvatore Conticello of the CBE group was able to present his project Ultrashort Time Echo MRI Sequence to Quantify Vertebral Bone Morphology in Young Adults and won the Best Student Paper award.
11. September 2025
The UniBE Venture Fellowships are entering their 5th round. Projects can be submitted until 11 December 2025. The program supports early-career researchers who wish to turn their scientific findings into innovative products and services with up to CHF 100,000. With these fellowships, the University of Bern promotes the transfer of innovative research into society and the economy and supports academic entrepreneurship at the University of Bern, the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the University Psychiatric Services (UPD).
13. October 2025
CAIM Evolves: Join us for an exciting afternoon of talks, panel discussions, and an overview of key Swiss digital initiatives at the Opening Event of the Department of Digital Medicine (DDM) of the Medical Faculty, University of Bern on Friday, October 31st, 2025, 15.00 – 18.00h.
31. October 2025