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2024 Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award to Manon Murdeu

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Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award by the Swiss 3R Competence Center to Manon Murdeu for her work on "Human-based placenta-embryo chip for developmental toxicity assessment of drugs, chemicals and nanoparticles."

25.06.2025

Rachel Sava received ETH medal for her Master thesis

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Rachel Sava, who did her Master thesis in our group, received ETH medal for her thesis and Willi Studer prize as one of the best students in the Master curriculum Biotechnology at D-BSSE.

24.05.2025

Multifunctional CMOS chip in open microfluidic system

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Novel multifunctional CMOS microelectrode array has been integrated into an open microfluidic system. The array can be used in hanging-drop mode for in situ microtissue readouts and in standing-drop mode like a conventional microelectrode array.  

20.03.2025

Direct printing of 3D electrodes on CMOS arrays

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Method for fabricating tissue-penetrating 3D microelectrodes directly on our planar microelectrode array chips by using high-resolution 3D printing and 2-photon polymerization developed by collaborators in Stanford.

30.11.2024

Visit of TEDD network to Department BSSE and BEL

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Members of TEDD network visited Department BSSE and BEL including research presentations and laboratory tours. TEDD is Swiss competence center devoted to Tissue Engineering for Drug Development and Substance Testing.

15.11.2024

Best presentation award at EPG Conference for Manon Murdeu

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Best presentation award (second place) for Manon Murdeu (EMPA St. Gallen and BEL) at 19th European Placenta Group (EPG) Conference 2024 in Hradec Kràlové, Czech Republic.

14.11.2024

8th BEL-PEL conference on emerging topics in science in new BSSE building

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Alumni and coworkers of BEL and PEL (former group of Prof. H. Baltes) met for a day to talk about emerging topics in science.

10.11.2024

Springer Nature Test of Time award to A. Hierlemann

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Microsystems & Nanoengineering / Springer Nature Test of Time Award at MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal to A. Hierlemann for contributions to tracking neurons and axons by means of high-density microelectrode arrays.

17.10.2024

ECNP excellence award for Aayush Marishi

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European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) excellence award for Aayush Marishi for his poster presentation on NOS1AP overexpression impacting network-level electrophysiology of in-vitro neuronal networks.

23.09.2024

Spinoff MaxWell Biosystems visited BEL and BSSE

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BEL spinoff MaxWell Biosystems visited the Department BSSE and BEL group on the occasion of celebrating their 8th year of incorporation.

20.09.2024

BEL contribution to paper on event-based microelectrode arrays

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BEL contribution to paper on self-clocked microelectrode array, which digitizes bio-signals at the pixel level by encoding changes as asynchronous digital address-events when they exceed a certain threshold.  

04.09.2024

Transwell-based microfluidic platform for high-resolution imaging of airway tissues

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Novel microfluidic platform for cultivation of transwell-based lung tissues provides the possibility to alternate between air–liquid interfaces for culturing and liquid–liquid interfaces for imaging. Platform enables tissue cultivation and analysis under standardized well plate conditions.

11.07.2024

Poster prize at MPS Summit 2024 for Martin Stano

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Best Poster Award (3rd place) at the Microphysiological Systems (MPS) World Summit for Martin Stano presenting a platform for in-vitro sonodynamic therapy testing.

20.06.2024

Mechanical stimulation and electrophysiological monitoring at sub-cellular resolution

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Synchronized combination of atomic force microscopy, high-density microelectrode array, and fluorescence microscopy developed. System can mechanically characterize and stimulate individual neurons at picoNewton force sensitivity and nanometer precision while monitoring electrophysiological activity at sub-cellular spatial and millisecond temporal resolution.

16.02.2024

HD-MEAs contribute to detecting proteinopathies in human neurodegenerative diseases

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New 2D human-derived cell-culture model developed and electrophysiologically characterized, which led to discovery of new protein, neuronal pentraxin 2 (NPTX2), playing an important role in neurodegenerative diseases amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLS).

15.02.2024

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