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)

2022 Alicia Feist, University Bern for her internship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for “the effects of movement restrictions on rowing performance”.

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