2018 Finalist The Hamlyn Symposium – Surgical Robotic Challenge 2018 “Robotic Cochlear Implantation”
2017 Handelszeitung Wachstums-Champion (Rank 11) CAScination AG Swiss SME high growth companies
2017 International Society for Computer Aided Surgery, ISCAS/Olympus Best Paper Award “Facial nerve monitoring during robotic cochlear implantation: first patient experience”
2016 CARS 2016 Congress 2nd Price at the KUKA IJCARS Best Paper “Feasibility of stereotactic MRI-based image guidance for the treatment of vascular malformations: a phantom study.”
2015 Nominated Swiss Economic Award 2015 Category HighTech/Biotech “Image-guided soft-tissue surgery and interventions”
2015 German Society for Skull Base Surgery, Best Presentation “High Accuracy, General Purpose Stereotactic Guidance System for Surgical Interventions in the Ear”
2014 CAMILIS: International Collaboration Award of the Swedish Surgical Society
2013 Winner of the CTI Medtech Award Switzerland 2013 for joint project with CAScination AG “Image guided liver surgery – towards precision navigation”
2013 Hamlyn Medical Robotics Award for Best Oral Presentation: Image Guided and Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Cochlear Implantation
2013 Innovation Award of the Ypsomed Innovation Foundation (30.000 CHF) for the project “Minimally invasive and Image Guided Cochleaimplantation”
2012 Best article from the literature in medical informatics published in year 2011 for Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2012: A portable image overlay projection device for computer-aided open liver surgery IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2011 Jun;58(6):1855-64
2012 Best paper prize of the British Royal Society of Medicine on behalf of The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, category Basic Science “Development of an auditory implant manipulator (AIMAN) for minimally invasive surgery of implantable hearing devices”
2010 Ypsomed Innovation Award of the Ypsomed Innovation Foundation (30.000 CHF)
2009 Largadiér-Award of the Swiss Society for Visceral surgery
2007 Best Paper Award ISCAS International Society for Computer Aided Surgery received at CARS - Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany
2007 Goldene Lehre Award for best lecture in the academic year at Technical University of Munich for the Lecture Series „Medical Home Care“