On March 28, 2025, Fei Wu successfully defended his PhD thesis: Alleviating the issue of Annotation Scarcity in Semantic Segmentation using Active Learning.
28. March 2025
Led by PD Dr. Francesco Clavica from ARTORG's Urogenital Engineering Group and Prof. Daniel Ahmed from the Acoustic Robotics Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, researchers have developed an innovative technology which can clean implanted medical devices such as ureteral stents and catheters non-invasively, using ultrasound activation through the skin.
29. April 2025
On Friday, May 02, 2025 it is our pleasure to welcome you again at the auditorium Ettore Rossi on the Inselspital campus for the 16th annual BME Day!
07. April 2025
A team of researchers at Inselspital led by Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Gräni, Director of Cardiac Imaging, and Dr. Isaac Shiri, Head of Research for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine, has developed an AI-based tool for the detection and classification of anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries (AAOCA) - a very rare congenital heart defect - using coronary CT angiography images.
03. April 2025
As an equal opportunity employer and educator, the ARTORG Center recognizes and fosters diversity and strives to create an inclusive environment with team members coming from different professional and cultural backgrounds. We interviewed Dr. Silje Ekroll Jahren, postdoctoral researcher and equal opportunities officer, and Julia Spyra, program coordinator for our master's programs, about their effort to further equality at ARTORG through language courses.
31. March 2025
On March 19, 2025, Aurelia Bucciarelli successfully defended her PhD thesis: Dynamics of Red Blood Cell Partitioning and Flow in In Vitro Microvascular Networks: The Roles of Lingering Red Blood Cells and Pericyte Activation.
19. March 2025
On March 18, 2025, Christina Wapp successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: “The Development of a Personalised Fragility Hip Risk Calculator.” In this work, Christina presents a novel hip fracture risk calculator based on a mechanic stochastic framework. By combining an existing model used to describe the occurrence of a fall with a stochastic distribution, she could identify the fall events resulting in a fracture and calculate the fracture risk.
18. March 2025
The second round of UniBE INNO Grant recipients includes Nic Krummenacher, PhD student in the Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation group! His winning project, DextEgg, is a new, interactive, sensor-based rehabilitation system to train fine motor skills in clinic and at home.
15. January 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Dr. Brice-Olivier Demory has joined the ARTORG Center as an interfaculty member! He is currently an affiliated professor with the university's Center for Space and Habitability (CSH).
17. March 2025
Our Annual Report 2024 has just come out! Read what our 12 specialized research groups were working on last year, what we have achieved in our commitment to advance healthcare innovation and check out our 14 graduates who defended their PhD thesis in 2024!
15. January 2025
Switzerland launches its own “For Women in Science” program for Postdoc female scientists in STEM with an award worth 25’000 Swiss francs. Applications close on March 31, 2025.
13. March 2025
The Bern AI Radiotherapy (BART) Symposium is a one-day meeting, aiming to bring researchers together in the radiation oncology, medical physics and the AI engineering community. BART aims to foster a collaborative environment that bridges the gap between technology and healthcare.
19. February 2025