BME Day 2024

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The industry, medical doctors, and engineers meet for the Biomedical Engineering Day at the Inselspital in Bern with great success

On May 29th, 2024, the Biomedical Engineering Day took place in the auditorium Ettore Rossi at the Inselspital in Bern. The Master in Biomedical Engineering program of the University of Bern organized this event for the 15th time.
The event is an efficient platform in Switzerland for networking of Master and PhD graduates and Swiss and international medical technology companies. This year’s companies introduced themselves through oral presentations and gave insight into their commercial activities and their company philosophies as well as showed their demands on junior employees. Students thus had the opportunity to get to know potential future employers and contact them directly. This was made possible between the sessions in personal conversations and at the exhibitors’ booths.
The BME Day offered great opportunities for the Bernese biomedical researchers, too. The ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research and the Bern University of Applied Sciences, a partner within the Master's program, used the possibility of presenting current research projects to more than 400 participants. Interestingly, Master and PhD students play an important role in many of these projects. Thereby, this event was a demonstration of scientific achievements, too.
Besides company representatives, scientists, researchers, and young academics, many medical doctors participated in this year’s event as they had the chance for intensive communication with the biomedical engineers. One highlight of the day was the successful live surgery by Karl Sommer, Department of Urology, University Hospital Bern (Inselspital). Illustrative explanations in the auditorium were given by Beat Roth, from the same department.

Awards

The following awards for excellent academic achievements in the field of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern were presented:

• Swiss Engineering Award for the best master's thesis (innovation): 
  • Pascal Buchs – Design of a New Device for Heart Valve Repair Testing
• Swiss Engineering Award for the best master's thesis (basic science):
  • David Sprecher – Objective Impedance Features of Cochlear Implants for the Evaluation of Hearing Preservation
• CCMT Award for the best PhD thesis:
  • Tatiana Kochetkova – Quantifying Bone Extracellular Matrix Properties for Improved Clinical Fracture Risk Prediction
• BME Club Award for the best master's thesis abstract:
  • Simon Gremaud – μCT Images from Clinical CT of the Human Proximal Femur using Deep Learning Super-Resolution (1st place)
  • Sebastian Senti – Estimation of Material Parameters of a Fiber-Reinforced Constitutive Model of the Human and Porcine Cornea (2nd place)
  • Oskar Okaya – Development and Characterization of a Novel Ultrasonic Cutting Tool for Osteotomy (2nd place)
  • Christina Czekus – Automatization and Validation of a Next Generation Smart Multiwell Plate Lid for Organ-on-Chip Applications (2nd place)

BME Day 2024 final program and exhibitors' map

Please open the BME Day 24 final program and exhibitors' map here: