BME Day Poster Award
2019 – Mareike Apelt, “Tissue Impedance Spectroscopy to Guide Resection of Brain Tumours”
2018 – Can Gökgöl, “The effects of Nitinol stent oversizing in patients
undergoing femoro-popliteal artery revascularization”
2017 – Sandro De Zanet, “Retinal Slit Lamp Stitching”
2016 – Joachim Dehais, “A computer Vision-Based Smartphone System for Carbohydrate Counting”
2015 – Tom Williamson, “High accuracy surface matching and navigation on the lateral skull base”
2014 – Janine Ruppen & Christoph Strub, “Increased Perfusion-Induced Chemoresistance in Multicellular Pleural Cancer Spheroids Cultured in a Microfluidic Chip”
BME Day Master Abstract Award
2021 – 1. Price – Simone Poncioni, “Optomechanical Simulations of Laser Refractive Surgeries”
2. Price – Nathan Gyger, “Contactless Detection of Gait and Gait Abnormalities”
3. Price – Martin Bertsch, “Targeted Drug Delivery in Glioblastoma Mouse Models”
2020 – Giuditta Thoma, “Lung-Alveoli-on-Chip: Mechanical Characterization of a New Biological Membrane”
2019 – Vikas Mathew, “Erythrocyte-Based Nanotechnology for Personalized Drug Delivery Systems”
2018 – Christopher Lenherr, “Indentation Properties of Metastatic Vertebral Bone”
2017 – Michael Indermaur, “Visualization of Trabecular Bone Damage using MicroCT”
2016 – Jan Beerstecher, “Implant Design for a Long-term Esophageal ECG Recorder”
2015 – shared by Manuel Jonas Bracher, „Wireless Functional Electrical Simulation“ and Andreas Dünki, “Experimental Validation of an HR-pQCT-based Homogenized Finite Element Analysis of Human Distal Radius Sections”
2014 – Raphael Meier, “Decision Forest for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation”
Travel Grant Winners (2 x CHF 400.-/Year)
2021 – No traveling allowed due to Covid-19
2020 – No traveling allowed due to Covid-19
2018 – Stephan Gerber, ARTORG, University Bern for his oral presentation at the “40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference”, 17 – 21 July 2018, Honululu, Hawaii.
2017 – Rakesh Vasireddy, University Bern for his paper K-Band Doppler Radar is feasible and accurate to record and assess overnight respiratory rate presentation at the “European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC) and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC)”, 11 – 15 June 2017, Tampere, Finland.
2016 – Adel Tekari, ISTB, University Bern for his oral presentation at the “Global Spine Congress”, 13 – 16 April 2016, Dubai.
Student Travel Award Winners
Student Travel Award (CHF 50.-) discontinued in 2016
2015 – Stephan Gerber
2014 – Aarati Chacko
2013 – Pietro Bottani, Diana Peña
2012 – Mohammad Javad Shamsollahi